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Re: Suffixes (Was: <<tlhIngan 'o' Humghach>>vetlh)

On Nov 17,  7:51pm, Captain Krankor wrote:
...
> >"I cannot agree with you."
> 
> Then I completely don't get it.  jIQuchbe'laHbe' certainly means "I can't
> be unhappy", and jIQuchnISqu' means "I NEED to be happy".
> 
>             --Krankor

     Somewhere in the middle, jIQochbe'laHbe' and jIQochnISqu' got changed to
jIQuchbe'laHbe' and jIQuchnISqu'. I can certainly see jIQuchbe'laHbe' as a
more direct and meaningful example than jIQochbe'laHbe'. Lacking the ability
to be unhappy is not the same thing as needing to be happy.

     Meanwhile, lacking the ability to avoid disagreeing is far closer to
needing to disagree. Either one can be translated as "I MUST disagree!"

     If the original example had been jIQuchbe'laHbe', vaj jIQochQo'pu'.

--   charghwI'

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