tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Sep 03 19:10:00 1997
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Re: buy' ngop?
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: buy' ngop?
- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 19:09:56 -0700 (PDT)
At 03:20 PM 9/3/97 -0700, ter'eS wrote:
>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
[...]
>>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?
>From everything we've seen, anywhere that you can use a noun, you can use a
noun and an adjectival verb so "X-bogh N" implies "X-bogh N Y."
Qov ([email protected])
Beginners' Grammarian