tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jun 30 09:54:34 1998
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Re: suffixes in comparative sentences, etc
- From: Robyn Stewart <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: suffixes in comparative sentences, etc
- Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 09:48:36 -0700 (PDT)
---Anthony Appleyard wrote:
>
> Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
> > What is a "mood-altering suffix"? ...
>
> Sorry. I was meaning `mood' as in Latin etc > > grammar book.
I never would have used this term for V6s but Webster says ...
"mood (gram.) an aspect of a verb indicating whether the speaker
regards the denoted action as a fact, a probability or possibility, a
command etc."
... and the V6s fit that definition. I know there is a different,
more specific term for this because I am learning another language
that has them, but I've forgotten the term. Holtej?
> I am sorry if I caused annoyance by using -ghach in > {ghunghach}
for "computer
> program" a day or two ago;
No annoyance, it just had to be corrected.
> but what <is> the correct word?
If you need a word for the set of procedures the computer carries out
in response to your programming, perhaps {De'wI' mIwmey}. {mIwmey
vIghunta'bogh}. You have encoded your instructions, so {ngoq} isn't
too idiomatic. Like any other concept for which there is no Klingon
word available for the first thing you look up, comb the vocabulary
for something that carries your meaning.
I suppose I could
> avoid the word: {De'wI' vIghunpu', <what the > program makes the
computer do,
> with -meH on its main verb>}; but then how to say: > "that program
is called
> TYPECASE"? I guess Okrand <might> have put a > noun **{ghun} here,
if he had
> needed a word for "program"; but that is > supposition until someone
asks him
> about it.
Maybe Klingons don't think of a program as a thing. Do you have a
separate word for a program when it resides in RAM as opposed to in
storage? Perhaps data and programs are all De' or qawHaq and and the
rest is described by answering the question {chay' Da De'wI'}.
> PS: TYPECASE-wIj neH 'Iv? 'oH vIlablo',
> PKUNZIP ghajchugh HevwI'.
Qapbe' De'wI'wIj.
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