tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 09 12:13:17 1994
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Re: pronouns and <-bogh>
>Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 14:22:21 -0500
>Originator: [email protected]
>From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
>yIyIn 'ej yIQap.
>If you want it to sound more like a blessing than a command,
>then add the suffix {-jaj}:
>yIyInjaj 'ej yIQapjaj
Uh, Will... one or the other. The "-jaj" suffix indicates a wish, yes, so
"bIyInjaj" means "may you (singular) live." I can't really make sense out
of "?yIyInjaj" with both imperative prefix and "-jaj"; we have no examples
of that in canon either.
~mark