tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Apr 08 20:52:17 1999
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Re: adjectives, ???
TPO wrote:
> >Arrrgh! This is slightly frustrating you know. The dictionary says one thing
> >then canon has examples otherwise. So I'll pen the above into my dictionary
> >(which looks more like a journal now) and I'll think, "Okay, I got it now!"
> >Then it will change again...... oh well, I can't complain I guess. The more
> >options the merrier.
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> I don't see anywhere in TKD where it states that a verb acting adjectivally
> can't take anything except -qu'.
It doesn't say that. It says the verb can take the N5 and/or -qu'. And as SuStel
pointed out to us, we have canon examples of other rovers being used.
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> It says -qu may follow the verb, and it says that only -qu can be used when
> a type 5 noun suffix is used.
I believe you misread the section. It reads as follows...
If a Type 5 noun suffix is used, it follows the verb, which, when used to modify
the noun in this way, can have no other suffix except the rover -qu' emphatic. The
type 5 noun suffix follows -qu'. TKD pg. 50
The part that says "which, when used to modify the noun..." is referring to the
verb not the type 5.
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> If only -qu can be used anytime the verb is an adjective, why also specify
> that only -qu can be used if a type 5 is used?
-qu, or another rover, can be used regardless of a type 5 being used. A type 5 can
be used regardless of a rover being used. Or, they can be used together.
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> But on the other side... in the description for -qu is the only place TKD
> mentions that a suffix can be used on adjectives.
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> It doesn't say yes, but it doesn't say no either. Again Marc left breathing
> room for himself.
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> Also... perhaps you should pencil it into your dictionary, instead of pen. :)
Good point.
K'ryntes
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> DloraH