tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Aug 26 12:40:55 1996
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Re: cause to be
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>Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 03:53:41 -0700
>From: "A.Appleyard" <[email protected]>
> {X jIH} = I am an X. Here jIH acts as a verb. So, is this allowed? :-
> X jIHmoH Y = the Y caused me to be an X, the Y turned me into a X.
> Duj HoD jIHmoD matlh = Maltz appointed me as spaceship captain.
Possibly, since we're told pronouns can take verb-suffixes, but to me,
subjectively, it sounds bad. When too much is made of that rule, it
somehow sounds wrong. That's just my opinion of course. But in this case,
there's a perfectly good verb already there: "moj." Duj HoDvaD mumojmoH
matlh is probably okay, but maybe better is matlhmo' Duj HoD jImoj (or
even Duj HoD jIH).
~mark
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