tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Aug 18 05:20:28 2002
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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.