tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 06 17:30:45 1999
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Re: adverb suffixes???
>From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
>Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 16:59:28 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
>
>On 5 Dec 1999 04:22:07 -0000 "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>> Now, I'm not saying this is right: it probably isn't, and you probably
>> think it isn't too. Doesn't mean it's a bad thing to say. People often
>> use dodgy nonce grammar and words in colloquial conversation, and it gets
>> the point across. You wouldn't write it in a book, and you wouldn't say it
>> to your sixth-grade grammar teacher, but you would say it to a friend, who
>> would likely grin at your creative play on words. Like the time at a
>> qep'a', when I asked "why?" about something and you turned to me and said
>> "mo'!" (i.e. "just because!")
>
>More accurately, I sang {-mo', -mo' neH}. Of course, singing a
>syllable as short as {-mo'} doesn't sound much like singing... I
>hoped my broadway hand gestures would have made my intent more
>obvious.
>
>"Because, just because..."
I don't recall picking up on any musical references, but I *did* quite
effortlessly understand what you were trying to say. Which is, after all,
the point.
>We do have inspired moments at qep'a'.
This is true.
~mark