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Re: KLBC: Thinking and compounding

At 06:05 PM 8/30/96 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>At 10:33 AM 30/8/96 -0700, you wrote:
>>qaSDI' 96-08-30 12:19:56 EDT, jatlh beHwI"av:
>>
>>> <Thinking>
>>>  
>>>  jIH jIQubmoHbogh
>>>  jIQub jIHmoHtaHbogh
>>>  
>>>  SKI: I think which causes me to be
>>>  SKI: I am which causes me to think
>>
>>*groan*  I am sooo sorry I *ever* tried to do that "I think therefore I am"
>>idea.
>
>It wasn't meant as "I think there for I am", I wanted to se if my {-Hombogh}
>combo would work. Sadly this was the first thing that sprang to mind. Maybe
>{-Hombogh} would be better suited for a different idea.


I'm going to assume you mean -moH, not -Hom, which is a NOUN suffix. {{:)

-moHbogh is perfectly acceptable, in it's proper place.  This, however, is
not a good use of it, because you are trying to translate too litterally.
Here is a better example:

        SuvlI' yaS vIQeHmoHbogh
        "The officer which I caused to be angry is in the process of fighting."

In this case, the -moH makes transitive (able to take an object" the verb
"to be angry".  Normally, you cannot "be angry" something... but, you can
CAUSE to be angry something/one!  That is where you use -moH:

        yaS vIQeHmoH
        "I caused the officer to be angry."

This sentence, like any other, can have -bogh attached to it to make it a
relative clause:

        yaS vIQeHmoHbogh
        "The office which I caused to be angry"

This clause can then be used in a sentence, as I did above.

I'm not sure if you are not understanding -moH, or not understanding
relative clauses.  If it is relative clauses, please ask, because I don't
want to go into those right now (that would get rather involved, and as you
can see, I am trying to catch up on my mail).  I suspect it is -moH, so here
is another example:

        veS vIqaSmoHpu'
        "I caused the war to occur."

Does this help?


>>Sorry if this sounds a bit terse (well, for a human).  I am just worried that
>>this idea is getting out of control.
>
>Please be terse. I can handle it. As I said, it wasn't the idea, but the
>combo that was the point of this exercise...


I'm not sure what you are trying to accomplish with this combination.  A
better example would help?


>Qapla'
>
>beHwI"av


--tQ


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