tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jul 04 00:31:23 2004
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Re: imperative + -jaj
- From: "QeS lagh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: imperative + -jaj
- Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 17:30:42 +1000
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ghItlhpu' Dar'Qang:
>Is there any sense that is made of using an imperative prefix + -jaj
>suffix?
>example: ?yItaHjaj
>TKD doesn't seem to exclude it.
Does {yItaHjaj} make sense to you? If it does, I'd like to know what you
think it means.
I do think that {yItaHjaj} is a nonsense, to be honest. Sure, TKD might not
explicitly restrict it. But there are a lot of things that TKD doesn't
explicitly restrict, but probably can't be sensibly done anyway. For
instance, can you tell me what {yImoj 'e' vIchup} means?
In my experience, imperative prefixes don't work sensibly with any of the
type 9 verb suffixes. I'd see all of the following as senseless:
??{yIta'jaj}
??{yIta'ghach}
??{yIta'wI'}
??{yIta'bogh}
??{yIta'chugh}
??{yIta'DI'}
??{yIta'taHvIS}
taH:
>bItaH 'ej bIchep
Remember that this strictly means "You live long and prosper". It's not a
command or a wish like the English, just a statement of fact.
QeS lagh
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