tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 16 19:11:28 2002
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Re: similes
From: "Quvar valer" <[email protected]>
> >on the first noun of a noun-noun construction, and that's a no-no
according
> "When the noun-noun construction is used, only the second noun can takey
syntactic suffixes (Type5).
> Both nouns, however, may take suffixes of the other four types."
> qatlh?! pabvam vIpar... ;-)
Heh. Do'Ha'. yISIQtaH! :)
> >ghaytanHa'. choja' chetvI' chIm rur DujlIj. qatlh? tInmo'? baS
'oHmo'?
> >HoSghajmo'? jISovbe': jIHvaD bIQIjpu'be'.
> 'e' vIHartaH. That's what I thought.
Hee! There's another of those little hidden rules: you can't put a Type 7
suffix on the second verb of a Sentence As Object . . . . (TKD 6.2.5)
(Although given as you're completing my sentence rather than your own, I
wonder if that changes things.)
> >It is my impression that Okrand provides us with a tool for constructing
> >similies in KGT, rather than just giving us a listing of set, unalterable
> >sayings.
>
> So it's not like the idioms, that mean only what they mean.
> When I say {qagh vIrur}, nobody thinks that I'm hungry. But we can change
these expression like we want
jISovbe'. chaq Dayajlu'. tlhIngan wIghelnISlaw'.
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