tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Oct 15 10:15:55 1997
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Re: Lachrimosa?
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Lachrimosa?
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 97 19:18:04 UT
[email protected] on behalf of [email protected] wrote:
> I know the [stative] verb {Sum} only as "be near". Your use of it here
seems
> to try to make the whole sentence translate as "But be very careful if you
> are near a crying Klingon." Is this what you mean?
We don't know yet exactly how this verb works, or its counterpart, {Hop}. As
far as I can tell, they are verbs of quality, and do not take objects.
I'd say this as
SaQtaHchugh tlhIngan Sum yIyepqu'.
> But, we know we can use the construction of {matay'taHvIS}. This leads me
to
> believe we could also say {Sumchuqchugh SoQbogh tlhIngan SoH je vaj
> yIyepqu'}.
{Sumchuq} also assumes {Sum} can take an object. {-chuq} indicates that the
plural subject is also the object. If you don't accept objects on {Sum}, you
shouldn't accept {Sumchuq} or {Sum'egh}.
SuStel
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