tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Feb 09 11:11:30 2003
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Re: parmaqqay bomvaD
- From: "Sangqar (Sean Healy)" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: parmaqqay bomvaD
- Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 17:18:49 +0000
>>parmaqqay bomvaD
>
>Since I assume you mean "a song for (my) love" and not "a love for (my)
>song", I suggest <parmaqqayvaD bom>. You may even want to explicitly state
>that it is for your love, <parmaqqaywI'vaD bom>.
Let me clarify something about my explanation: Technically, you can't uses
a Type 5 suffix on the first noun in a noun-noun construction, so as it
stands, this is ungrammatical. However, it may be acceptable in poetry
(especially if it is short for something like, <parmaqqayvaD bom vIqon>),
since we know that in many languages the rules of grammar are often
stretched in poetry (the most famous example in Klingon is probably
<tlhonmey>).
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