tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 26 11:55:19 1994
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Adjectival verbs
- From: [email protected] (Bill Willmerdinger)
- Subject: Adjectival verbs
- Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 20:02:12 -0500
I think that I've been laboring under a misconception.
I've been assuming that adjectival verbs, like "tuj" be hot or "boch" be
shiny, could not be used as the main verb in a sentence, but only as modifiers
on a noun. Looking at the examples in my TKD, however, I see "boch ghIchraj"
and "yItamchoH", both of which use verbs I had tagged as "adjectival".
I guess that I've been excluding from use fully half of the verbs in TKD,
effectively keeping myself from saying things I thought I couldn't say easily.
Some of these were keeping me from going further on a couple of translation
projects!
Perhaps this is a good time to say "Hagh qoHpu' neH HeghtaHvIS SuvwI'pu'".
Has anyone else had this experience, or is there a List ruling on this
subject? What's the consensus? (Or do I need to issue another replacement
proverb for asking a dumb question?)
Qob
... We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt & uncertainty!