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RE: KLBC: yIn QaDwIj

• From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: KLBC: yIn QaDwIj
• Date: Mon, 16 Jun 97 03:21:51 UT

Stardate Hovjaj: 97455.11 jatlh Q'ISto'va:

> Say, the following could be used for vampire...
> 
> lom'e' 'Iw tlhutlhwI' (Corpse who drinks blood... perfect!)

That's not right.  You cannot use a Type 5 noun suffix on any noun in a 
noun-noun construction except the last one (TKD 3.4).  The {'e'} would have to 
go.  But even then, {lom 'Iw tlhutlhwI'} simply means "corpse blood drinker."

Literally, "corpse which drinks blood" would be {'Iw tlhutlhbogh lom'e'}.  Not 
that I think this is THE phrase for "vampire" . . .

-- 
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
Stardate 97456.9

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