tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Mar 07 20:52:39 1997
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Re: Extra stuff qororvo'
ja' qoror:
> wa') We all know that the apostrophe in Klingon is a consonant of its
>own. But "apostrophe" is a clumsy word...
Some people, myself among them, occasionally call it a "tick".
> cha') How about "yI-" at the beginning of a verb and "'a'" at the end?
Imperative prefixes and type 9 verb suffixes do seem incompatible to me.
> wej) ...I have realized some adverbs in tera'ngan Hol that take
>articles, and in fact don't work the same way without the articles!
>Ready? "A
>lot" and "a bit," in such sentences as "he sleeps a lot," and "he works a
>bit."
>How's that?
Hmm. "Intensely" and "slightly" don't need articles, and mean somewhat
the same things as "a lot" and "a bit".
-- ghunchu'wI'