tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 26 11:33:36 2004
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Re: action verbs vs. qualities
On Tue, 25 May 2004, David Trimboli wrote:
> And let's face it: in Klingon, being happy or hot or angry IS an action.
> {Quch} and {tuj} and {QeH} are VERBS. They are {wot}. To describe them in
> terms of actions is not strange. {jIQeH}. I don't do it *to* anything, I
> just do it. I {QeH} "be angry."
I agree. There's also an ongoing open question about "which verbs are
transitive and which are intransitive", which is very similar. We have
some common agreements on which verbs are and are not, but we base this on
the *lack* of specification (ie. since we know you can always use a verb
without an object, it is 'safe' to avoid using objects with some verbs).
There is nothing that says you *can't* use an object with some of these
verbs, but we have no canon source to do that, and the lightweight English
'translations' do not necessarily discount the possibility that what we
think of as intransitive has a transitive meaning in Klingon.
...Paul
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