tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 09 08:25:18 2003
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Re: Qapla': Noun or Exclamation?
From: "QeS lagh" <[email protected]>
> After KGT came out, I gave some thought to the possibility of {Qapla'} as
a
> verb: {Qap} + {la'}, that horrible class 5 suffix SuStel and I dislike so
> much.
Well, it's not so much that I dislike the slang suffix that much. I just
dislike people using slang as if it were an ordinary tool. "But I meant to
use slang!" Yeah, right; that's why it's the only instance of slang in your
entire working vocabulary . . . .
> The result was ??{Qapla'} "one is able to succeed"
>
> Might this have some etymological value?
I've occasionally wondered this myself. Unfortunately, we have no
information about this.
SuStel
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