tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Sep 20 20:28:29 1997
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yIjey'lu'
Tad Stauffer writes:
> {vaj Qaghlu'DI' peQuch!} Hmm... For some reason, I don't want to have
>one verb here with an indefinite subject, and then use the imperative with a
>definite plural subject.
jIH munuQbe'. It seems fine to *me*...
> It seems really weird and contradictory, however to
>use imperative prefixes with the suffix {-lu'}. That is, it seems to me that
>could you use {yIjeylu'} to mean "Be defeated!"...,
[SFX: a mind stretching and reaching a new shape] *creeeeeeak.....twang!*
That's...interesting. Very...interesting. At first glance, it's odd. At
second glance, it looks like it works.
>but it would be impossible
>to use something like {yIQuchlu'} "Be happy" that would be said to people in
>general, instead of a defined group. Just a thought.
Yeah, the {-lu'} suffix on an intransitive verb, imperative or not, doesn't
work for me.
-- ghunchu'wI'