tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 01 21:08:22 1997
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Re: V-bogh N V(adj) (was Re: bIQ'a' Doq bIngDaq)
- From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: V-bogh N V(adj) (was Re: bIQ'a' Doq bIngDaq)
- Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 23:09:58 -0600
At 04:10 PM 12/1/97 -0800, ghunchu'wI' wrote:
>ja'"Anthony.Appleyard" <[email protected]>:
>> "Are more than one state verbs after one noun legal?" sounds like a query
>>for Okrand to sort out, unless there are canon examples of either {<noun>
>><adj> <adj>} or of {<adj>bogh <noun> <adj>} (where <adj> means "state verb").
>
>I just purchased entirely too many of the Skybox Klingon language cards at
>a Trek convention in Indianapolis. :-/ As I was reading them, I found the
>following sentence on S21, {Soj} "Klingon(tm) Food":
>
> yIntaHbogh tlhIngan Soj tlhol jablu'DI' tIvqu'lu'.
> "Klingon food is best when served fresh and live."
>
>The relevant phrase is {yIntaHbogh tlIngan Soj tlhol}. It's not perfect;
>{yIn} isn't a "be something" verb. But it's close.
>
Didn't Okrand address this in KGT? And the proper form is indeed
<adj>-bogh <noun> <adj>
-- ter'eS