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Re: vav Dunqoq - vavqoq Dun?

ngabwI' ([email protected])

From: "ngabwI'" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: vav Dunqoq - vavqoq Dun?
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 08:01:22 -0400
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lieven L. Litaer" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 7:48 AM
Subject: vav Dunqoq - vavqoq Dun?


> vav Dunqoq - vavqoq Dun?
>
> can I do as with type five suffix, folowing the adjectively modifiyng
verb?
>
> If I say "socalled great father"
> I think of
>   {vav Dunqoq}
> because
>   {vavqoq Dun}
> sounds like "great socalled father"
>
> Or remains this Klingon just ambiguous like this?
>
> Quvar.

It is certainly {vavqoq Dun}, b/c {-qoq}  is type 3, and only type 5's go on
a verb acting adjectivially.

But you're right, it does sound like "wonderful so-called father" to me,
too.

--ngabwI'
Beginners' Grammarian
Klingon Language Institute
http://kli.org
HovpoH 701856.8

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