tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 30 12:05:21 1994
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One more thing (was: KBGC...)
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: One more thing (was: KBGC...)
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 15:05:14 -0500
I realized something I'd missed in my corrections to this:
>>Date: Fri, 25 Nov 1994 15:50:36 -0500
>>Originator: [email protected]
>>From: Heidi Wessman <[email protected]>
>>It is the night of our dears Savior's birth.
>>[Our dear Savior is(was) born that night]
>>ramvetlh bogh toDwI'ma'voy
To which I'd said, among other things...
>There's no suffix "*-voy". I think you're trying for the
>endearment/diminuative suffix "-oy", which would fit, I guess... but I must
>point out that to me that dsounds like calling Jesus "our little
>saviorkins", which somehow doesn't seem quite right to my ear. Then again,
>I'm not Christian; maybe it works better for someone else.
All of which remains true (or at least, I'd still say it). But I missed
another point. If, indeed, the endearment suffix "-oy" is intended, the
order is also wrong. "-oy" is a type 1 noun suffix, and would therefore
immediately follow the noun toDwI', making it toDwI'oyma'. I still think
it sounds like "savior-snookums" though.
~mark