tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Nov 16 12:34:13 1995
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Re: haiku
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: haiku
- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 15:34:09 -0500
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (message from Adam Walker onWed, 15 Nov 1995 12:29:30 -0800)
>Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 12:29:30 -0800
>From: Adam Walker <[email protected]>
>Sorry. It should have read:
>jaghwIj'a' nujvo'
>nIjtaH Doqbogh Iw'. Dunbej!
>jI'ItHa'. yay'a'!
Hey, that all looks great! Not quite, actually; "-'a'" is a type-1 suffix
and has to precede "-wIj"; must be "jagh'a'wIj".
>> "jaghwIj": my enemy. Made an insult because you used "-wIj"
>instead of
>> "-wI'" which you ordinarily would for a sentient entity (like most enemies
>> are).
>Can I use such an abusive term with -'a'? Maybe that makes it, TOO
>strong.
I don't see why not. I don't think -'a' intensifies -wIj; it makes it "My
great !!@$%! enemy".
>> "nujvo''a'": I'm already lost. "nuj" is a noun (mouth), on which you have
>> attached two noun-suffixes in the wrong order. "-'a'" is a type-1 suffix
>> and "-vo'" is a type-9 suffix. They should go in the order "nuj'a'vo'",
>> meaning "from the great mouth(s)."
>Major appology!!!! I typed the -'a' on the wrong word, but the -vo'
>I was using is the type-5 meaning "from".
Blorf; braino. I said "type-9" when I meant type-5. I get confused
between the verbs and the nouns; I know that the last class on both is
syntactic markers.
>bItaghlI'chugh bIQapbe'law'. . . ghItlhqa', ghItlhqa', ghItlhqa'qu'.
>If at first you don't succeed. . . .edit, edit, edit!
Careful with your ifs. This isn't quite right. It means "If you are in
the process of beginning, you apparently don't succeed." That's not what
you want. You want "If you apparently don't succeed *when you begin*..."
Consider "bItaghDI' bIQapbe'law'chugh...."
~mark