tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Nov 16 12:55:57 1995
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Re: haiku
>Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 20:32:45 -0800
>From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
>Qogh writes:
>>jaghwIj'a' nujvo'
>>nIjtaH Doqbogh Iw'. Dunbej!
>>jI'ItHa'. yay'a'!
>Once again, {-'a'} is a type 1 noun suffix, and as such must come before
>any other suffixes. Your first word has the suffix order wrong. (This
>*is* poetry, so I won't complain about the naked noun at the end.)
There's nothing wrong with that; nobody said a sentence had to end with the
line. The noun-phrase is simply the object of the sentence, whose verb
follows.
>I already have a preferred translation for this:
>{SIbI' bIQapbe'chugh yInIDqa'taH}
I like your translation much better than the one I just posted a few
minutes ago.
~mark