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Re: suffixes -lu'wI'

Terrence Donnelly ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 

--- On Thu, 2/11/10, David Trimboli <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2/11/2010 2:41 PM, Terrence
> Donnelly wrote:
> > I've kind of always tended to think that Andre's idea
> wasn't totally
> > impossible. How about another type of nominalization,
> with {-ghach},
> > eg. {leghlu'ghach} 'the act of being seen' (there's no
> exact English
> > equivalent, but so what?).
> 
> When I see {leghlu'ghach}, I think "the act of one's
> seeing." A noun 
> meaning the act of someone unspecified seeing. I don't know
> if the word 
> would be meaningful to Klingons, though.
> 
> Again, the issue here isn't the Klingon, it's the tendency
> to think in 
> English passive voice when you're looking at the word. If
> you must 
> translate to think about the meaning, translate into the
> active voice 
> and try to work with that. If there's a difference when you
> do that, 
> you're working from translation, not from the original.
> 

Point taken. It was just a thought.

-- ter'eS

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