tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Aug 26 14:56:01 1997
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Re: defective verbs
- From: "Neal Schermerhorn" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: defective verbs
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 17:58:47 -0400
ghItlh Eduardo Fonseca:
>Is there in klingon defective verbs, that not allow
>the 1rst person of singular, as to abolish, to colour, to compute?
>I don't know if you can use it in english, but in portuguese
>you must not use this kind of verbs
The closest I know of in Klingon would be the 'taboo' against using the
-vIp suffix to refer to oneself as afraid. Other than that, it seems that
all Klingon verbs conjugate absolutely regularly. Which is odd in itself,
to me...
Qermaq
P. S. Are English verbs derived from Russian called defector verbs? :) (Ok,
that was bad...)