tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 24 17:57:44 1999
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RE: KLBC: Prefix trick
- From: "Andeen, Eric" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: Prefix trick
- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 19:00:14 -0700
jIjatlh:
<< The "prefix trick" is a bit of Klingon grammar. If a verb has an indirect
object (IO) that is first or second person (me, you, us) and a direct
object
(DO) that is third person, then instead of using the usual {IO-vaD DO verb}
formation, the verb prefix can be changed to indicate the indirect object.
Examples:
SoHvaD matlh vIpong - "I call you Maltz" - becomes
matlh qapong
jIHvaD paq yInob - "Give me the book" - becomes
paq HInob
pagh
Beginners' Grammarian >>
jatlh T'Lod:
>>>>>
Where would I classify this in the Klingon dictionary? In simple sentences
or
in the verb prefix section? I ask only because I want to create my own
personal dictionary that would enable me, myself, and I to understand
Klingon
better. I would not and never will distribute it, since that is illegal.
Also, should the double -bogh suffixed verb comment go under relative
clauses?
>>>>>
I'd put the "prefix trick" in the same section as the verb prefixes and
anything about subjects and objects. I don't know what you mean by "the
double -bogh suffixed verb comment". If you're talking about my advice to
put a repeated subject in the first clause instead of the last, that's more
of a style issue than anything else.
pagh
Beginners' Grammarian