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RE: puS and law'



>  > >The law'/puS comparative is a special construction all it's own.
>>  >TKD Sec 6.6 p70:
>>  >>>>
>>  >
>>  >6.6. Comparatives and superlatives
>>  >
>>  >The idea of something being more or greater than something
>>  >else (comparative) is expressed by means of a construction
>>  >which can be represented by the following formula:
>>  >
>>  >   A Q {law'} B Q {puS}
>>
>>  if i think of /law'/ and /puS/ as verbs, i must think of A Q and B Q
>>  as noun-noun compounds. then the quality (a verb) would get changed
>>  into a noun. but this normally never happens, does it? hm. this
>>  construction is no normal klingon sentence, is it? it's a
>>  construction of its own, it seems, doesn't it?
>
>Re-read my first sentence:
>   >The law'/puS comparative is a special construction all it's own.
>
>law'/puS does not follow Object-Verb-Subject.
>It is  Noun1 Verb law' Noun2 Verb puS

maybe i simply didn't realize it before that it's a construction of 
its own. ok!

tulwI',
sts.


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