At 07:14 18/01/2012, Steven Boozer wrote:
> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, January 18, 2012 > > Klingon word: choH > Part of speech: verb > Definition: alter, change As used in canon: DaH Heraj yIchoH Alter your course now. (ST5 notes) HIvHe yIchoHmoH Alter the attack course! ST5
This is interesting. Someone recently posted citing HIvHe yIchoHmoH as evidence that choH requires -moH to be transitive, yet that contradicts both the example from the ST5 notes and the gloss of "alter," which in English is always transitive.
I'm slowly tending towards a belief that Klingon is like English in its acceptance of many common verbs meaning both to do the thing to another and to have the thing done, with perhaps -moH and -'egh. I want to preserve the things that are Klingon and not have tlhIngan Hol become a Klinglish creole, but it's the price for expanded use of the language.
- Qov
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