tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 31 12:15:33 1994
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Re: Just Bored
>Sorry if this has already been suggested, but... what about
> vIDallu'
>? I.e., "(unspecified) is boring me".
>- marqem
That's stretching it. TKD's addendum has {quSDaq ba'lu''a'}, a {-lu'} on an
intransitive verb, so there's a canon example. But a *prefix* on such a verb?
Yipe.
Now, first consider what would happen if there were a definite subject here:
"IT bores me." Then according to your idea, it would come out {muDal}. Now
*that's* odd! I'm not going to say whether it's correct or not, until I think
it over a bit more. But for those who, upon reading this, feel a strong
compulsion to immediately condemn such a contruction, just remember, Klingon
objects are by no means defined by the same rigid standards as they are in
English and other similar languages.
I mean, look at the canonical {qajatlh} and {HInob}. They could never fit
into the traditional definition of 'object' as we think of it in English.
Guido#1, Leader of All Guidos