tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 21 04:19:49 1997
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Re: verb suffixes in comparative clauses?; male animals
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: verb suffixes in comparative clauses?; male animals
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 07:21:51 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
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On Wed, 19 Nov 1997 15:31:25 -0800 (PST) Marian Schwartz
<[email protected]> wrote:
> KGT p. 89 - "On the other hand, Klingons generally {Sep} ("breed") small
> animals such as {gharghmey} ("worms")."
If this is brought up in terms of wanting to express gender for
animals, well, aren't worms hermorphiditic?
> Yes, it is rather ugly to insert a Klingon verb into an English sentence in
> place of an English verb, but MO does it rather often in KGT. There's
> another one on p. 162.
Perhaps that is to counterbalance all the nouns tossed in to all
the novels by everyone else.
> Qapla'
> qoror
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