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Re: Tao Te Ching Chp. 81

Alan Anderson ([email protected])

• From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Tao Te Ching Chp. 81
• Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 17:40:01 -0500
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>>I hope it is possible to attach suffix {-wI'} to a verb already carrying a
>>type 7 suffix.

ja' Voragh:
>This is in the realm of theoretical grammar.  Our only example comes from
>Keith R.A. DeCandido's pro-novel _Diplomatic Implausability_, for which
>Okrand provided a few words:  {jeghpu'wI'} "conquered people", described in
>the glossary as "more than slaves, less than citizens, this status is given
>to occupants of worlds conquered by the Klingon Empire."  However, we don't
>know if this is one of Okrand's words, or one of DeCandido's.

I believe it's one of SuStel's. :-)  He is the first one I know of to have
suggested it when Mr. DeCandido agreed to accept help (after having been
gently corrected when he proposed {charghwI'} for the idea).

-- ghunchu'wI'

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