tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 02 20:27:23 2014
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Objects with -moH
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<div id="AOLMsgPart_0_64a93a6c-9ed3-48f9-949c-a295e73810e3" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I feel you're doing a good job thinking this through. My 2 cents would be to not underestimate the students.</font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">They will understand that verbs like {Qong} can only take a subject (either by prefix or following noun). And even if Klingon allowed {vIQong} (which I find hard to comprehend), I can't imagine any new student even conceiving of that.</font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">However, there will be questions regarding verbs which can gloss into both transitive and instransitive in English. It needs to made clear that {meQ} and others like it refer to that which is on fire, and {meQmoH} is the action to set something on fire (if that is our ultimate interpretation, canon notwithstanding).</font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">My experience has been that once a student learns a basic concept, his imagination takes over and applies his own language rules to the new concept. Regarding the prefix trick, I feel that question will come up rather quickly because it's a natural extension of the English usage.</font></tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">gheyIl</font></tt></pre>
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