tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 09 13:57:13 1995
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On Wed, 9 Aug 1995 Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
>"You shame yourself" is indeed reasonable for "Shame on you!" I was
>exploring other possibilities, which sounded to me a little more
>idiomatic. If, as in Klingon, the concept of "to be ashamed" is a
>single unit, one verb, then "bItuHnIS" is a nice package for "You should
>be ashamed." What does "Shame on you" mean? It sounds to me like "You
>are deserving of shame..." I don't see much difference in basic meaning
>between it and "You should be ashamed."
Sounds good. At the time, I was thinking along the lines of "You bring shame on
yourself." So I looked up <shame>. Saw a verb. Thought it sounded good to
say, "You shame yourself." I put a prefix & the possessive suffix on. At the
time I had no idea that <shame> was a verb+suffix. Live 'n' learn.
>~mark
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