tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 05 00:49:14 1994
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Re: DS9
According to HoD Qanqor:
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>
> tsk, tsk, tsk. While Amy can certainly be forgiven, 1000 shames on mark and
> charghwI', who both let DaqDaq'e' pass without comment, charghwI' even going
> so far as to use it himself in his own reformulation. Two type 5 noun suffixes
> on the same word? I think not. Not unless all have opted for Proechelian
> noun assumption and are trying to say "EAVESDROPPING PLACE".
>
> --Krankor
>
While I respect no other so much as my captain, I never once
concidered the {-Daq} in {QongDaq} to be a suffix. Instead, I
interpreted it (from the Conversational Klingon [CK] audio
tape) to be a new word, similar to a compound noun (even though
the first half of it is a verb) with the second noun being
{Daq}, meaning "site, location (n)" from the appendix of TKD.
Otherwise, we have to assume that {Qong} is a noun, unlike its
listing in TKD, since verbs don't take a {-Daq} suffix.
Might my captain reconsider this judgement?
charghwI'