tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Dec 16 22:03:32 1995
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Re: [What, me worry?]
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: [What, me worry?]
- Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 01:04:15 -0500
David Wood writes:
> The -vip suffix modifies another verb, so it's very hard to use by itself.
> Or IS it? There's no standalone word {vIp} in the dictionary, so it COULD
>be argued, however weakly, that {vIp} could be made a word by itself. But I
>digress.
As long as we're digressing... :-) I think the reverse argument makes more
sense -- standalone words become suffixes over time. I remember someone's
theory that {rIntaH} might someday become a new type 7 suffix {-rItlh}.
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj