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Re: (KLBC) Is this right?

Steven Boozer ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 

Quvar:
> > I do not like it, because it's too easy to make new
> > words by just adding -taH and -ghach. We know that
> > {-ghach} cannot be attached to the bare verbstem, but
> > using {-taH} every time seems a lazy way to avoid
> > this problem.

Tyler:
>Yeah, but in this case, {-taH} seems appropriate, since
>patience is usually a continuous thing.

I agree with Tyler.  {tuvtaHghach} works very well because of the nature of 
being patient: it's something you do over time.  I've never heard of 
someone being patient only briefly -- that would be *{tuvHa'ghach}, or 
impatience!

Okrand himself used {-ghach} with {-taH} in his article in HolQeD 
3.3:  {nobtaHghach} "ongoing giving" and {tlhutlhtaHghach} "ongoing 
drinking".  In fact, these feel much more peculiar to me.



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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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