tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Nov 28 12:05:12 2011
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] paq'batlh: COMPARING ADVERBS
Actually, we've seen this use of {-qu'} adding its emphasis to the adverbial before:
nom yIghoSqu'
Maximum speed. (ST5 notes)
Modifying:
cha'maH vagh vatlhvI' Hong. QIt yIghoS!
Slow to one quarter impulse power. ST5
produces on this model:
QIt yIghoSqu'
Minimum speed. (As slowly as possible?)
My own view is that because of Klingon's rigid word order, the ADVERBIAL + VERB form a unit and therefore suffixes emphasize - or can emphasize - the verbal unit as a whole since advierbials cannot take an affix (with the possible exception of {-Ha'}). By modifying the example:
tIqIpqu' 'ej nom tIqIp
Hit them hard and hit them fast. TKW
you may be able to say:
pe'vIl tIqIpqu'
Hit them really, really hard!
? Hit them as hard as you can!
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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From: lojmIt tI'wI'nuv [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 1:22 PM
Anyway, this opens the question of why the {-qu'} applied to the verb apparently adds its meaning to the adverb, instead.
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On Nov 26, 2011, at 5:27 PM, Agnieszka Solska wrote:
There is a line in the book possibly indicating how to compare adverbs:
Stories travel faster than a khrun
nom leng Hun nom lengqu' lut
(pp 130-131)
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