tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Mar 24 07:01:07 2014
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] The Legend of Gorath part 1
Brad Wilson wrote:
>> I originally had {yItam} for "be still", but I wanted to emphasize the
>> movement not just silence, since {yItam} is used later in the story
>> specifically for silence. I overlooked {yItaD} because I was only
>> reading it in the "ice" sense.
You want to use {-choH} here: {tamchoH} "become quiet":
yItamchoH
Be quiet! (Become quiet!) TKD
SuStel:
> While {yItaD} is the correct idiomatic choice in this case, be aware that
> in general when you are commanding someone with a verb of quality, you
> need to add {-'egh} and {-moH} to it: {yItam'eghmoH} "silence yourself!"
> This rule comes from KGT. {yItaD} "be frozen!, don't move!"
> is an idiomatic exception to the rule.
FYI...
KGT 117: These are idiomatic ways to give the command "Don't move!" The word {yItaD} is used when speaking to an individual; {petaD" is used when giving the command to a group. The verb {taD} means "be frozen", and it is used here in a peculiar, though not really ungrammatical, way. Generally, when a verb describing a state of being (for example, {tuj} ["be hot"]) is used in the imperative form, the suffixes {-'egh} (reflexive suffix) and {-moH} (cause) are used as well: {yItuj'eghmoH" ("Heat yourself!" - that is, "Cause yourself to be hot!"), {yItaD'eghmoH!} ("Freeze yourself!" - that is, "Cause yourself to be frozen!"). When {taD} is used in the idiomatic sense of "not move", however, it is treated as if a verb describing an activity, such as {yIt} (walk): {yIyIt!} ("Walk!").
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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