tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 16 07:16:15 1996
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Re: Nouns as verbs & KLBC
>Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 00:33:20 -0700
>From: [email protected] (Ford Prefect)
>> How do you say in Klingon:
>[snip]
>> 2) "Don't behave like a fool!"
>> Would: qoH yIDabe'. be O.K.(?)
>ghobe'. {qoH yIDaQo'} yIlo'.
Correct. You need "-Qo'".
>> 3) Is it possible to use nouns as verbs. I know there are few
>> nouns that are also verbs, but there is a (small indeed) number
>> of them which are not verbs.
>I don't think so. Maybe the hot shots can help out... >:)
>> I mean something contrary to: -ghach.
I doubt it. Is it meaningful to have such a thing? What would a verb
"book" mean (and don't tell me to reserve; that's an English idiom)? Or
"to heart" or "to history" or "to shuttlecraft"? There's no evidence of
any generic verbalizing construction that I know of. There are ways to use
the nouns, though...
>Ford
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