tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Nov 20 18:40:30 1999
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Re: KLBC Help with a word...
>Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 17:57:24 -0500
>From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
>
>ja' !mark:
>>(...The -vIS suffix
>>*requires* the -taH suffix: I think of them as just one suffix, -taHvIS.
>>This is incorrect when it comes to -taHneSvIS and -taHQo'vIS, but those are
>>rare.)
>
>Thinking of {-taHvIS} as a single suffix has gotten me into trouble when
>I wanted to put {-vIS} on a progressing action with a definite goal or
>stopping point. For example, if I had been talking about {SoplI'}, I'd
>be in danger of saying {?SoplI'taHvIS}. That's happened to me enough
>times that I'm more careful about it now.
So it doesn't work as well for you... I never had that problem myself, but
you do well to warn others, lest it cause them confusion...
~mark