tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Feb 08 22:41:56 1994
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Adams Family Motto:
- From: [email protected] (Mark E. Shoulson)
- Subject: Adams Family Motto:
- Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 11:40:30 -0500
- In-Reply-To: Will Martin's message of Wed, 9 Feb 94 11:07:52 EST <[email protected]>
>From: Will Martin <[email protected]>
>Date: Wed, 9 Feb 94 11:07:52 EST
>On Feb 9, 12:12am, Nick NICHOLAS wrote:
>> ...For example, vision (and this might be a bit
>> overreacting on my part) has changed from leghlaHghach to leghwI'laH,
>> the ability of a seer.
>Sorry, Nick. You can't nominalize a verb and then use a verb suffix on
>it. Once you add {-wI'} the word is a noun, and as such cannot accept {-laH}.
>{legh} is a verb. {leghwI'} is a noun. {leghwI'laH} is a non-word. That is
>not to say that your non-word is not interesting. The tumbling thoughts it
>creates are quite nice. It just doesn't happen to nearly follow the
>grammatical rules of Klingon.
Sorry, charghwI', but Nick's right. His compound is ok. You missed
another meaning of "laH". It isn't just a verb-suffix; it's also a noun in
its own right, meaning "ability". So "leghwI'laH" is a compound word of
"leghwI'" plus "laH", meaning "seer's ability" (noun-noun construction,
in one compound word, like jolpa')
>charghwI'
~mark