tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Sep 03 15:02:47 1997
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Re: buy' ngop?
- From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: buy' ngop?
- Date: Wed, 03 Sep 1997 16:59:39 -0500
At 09:58 AM 8/12/97 -0700, SuStel wrote:
>I've just finished reading Klingon for the Galactic Traveler, and on page 82
>you'll find a bit which explains that multiple adjectival verbs on a noun is
>not allowed. (Ah! Vindication! :) Okrand's formula for recasting this would
>be
>
>yoH SuvwI' 'ej matlh
>or
>yoHbogh SuvwI' 'ej matlhbogh
>
Right, but...
>Another way to do this is
>
>yoHbogh SuvwI' matlh
>or
>matlhbogh SuvwI' yoH
>
Actually, although I hope you are right, how did you arrive at this formula?
Only the first two formations are listed in the book ("X N 'ej Y" and
"X-bogh N 'ej Y-bogh"), I think. Is there canon to support the
"X-bogh N Y" form?
>SuStel
>Beginners' Grammarian
>Stardate 97614.4
>
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