tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Oct 27 20:23:48 1998
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Re: noun suffixes on adj?
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: noun suffixes on adj?
- Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 11:01:01 -0500
From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
>I often think that to the Klingon mind, a noun plus adjective becomes
>a sort of ad-hoc compound, and like a true N+A compound (such as /bIQtIq/),
>any Type 5 suffixes would come at the end of the whole expression.
The thing is, this doesn't explain why Klingons don't say things like {veng
tInwIj} for "my big city." There is some syntactic difference between Type
5 noun suffixes and other noun suffixes.
SuStel
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