tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Nov 13 02:20:31 1997
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verb suffixes in comparative clauses?; male animals
- From: "Anthony.Appleyard" <[email protected]>
- Subject: verb suffixes in comparative clauses?; male animals
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 10:20:08 GMT
- Organization: Materials Science Centre
- Priority: normal
"William H. Martin" <[email protected]> answered A.Appleyard:-
> > "In my herd, kill and clean the male targh which is fattest": but in
> > {... targh'e' pI' law' Hoch pI' pus ...}
> I'd probably just use {pov}:
> pI'bogh targh pov yIHoH.
> I would not try to combine a comparative and a relative clause.
Perhaps this time. But sometimes we do need a comparative in a relative
clause. Put this in the {OkrandvaD yu'ghachmey tetlh}?
> > The noun {loD} is "male, man", but what is the adjective "male" of an
> > animal? {loD 'oHbogh targh'e'}??
> We simply don't know. This would likely work. We don't even know whether
> Klingons CARE about the gender of animals. In terms of language, they barely
> care about the gender of PEOPLE.
But Klingon animal breeders MUST consider the gender of their animals,
unless targs etc are hermaphrodite or parthenogenetic!