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Re: KLBC: question about position of suffixes

Terrence Donnelly ([email protected])

• From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: KLBC: question about position of suffixes
• Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:39:11 -0700 (PDT)
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I believe the correct writing would be your second
example: {verengan Ha'DIbaH ghaH be'nalwI'
wa'DIch'e'}.

-- ter'eS BG

--- McArdle <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear BG,
>    
>   As I understand the relevant sections of the
> Klingon Dictionary, if I wanted to say "my wife is a
> Ferengi dog" (which, by the way, she's not) it would
> be
>    
>   verengan Ha'DIbaH ghaH be'nalwI''e'
>    
>   If I want to expand on this and say "my first
> wife", I add the word wa'DIch after be'nal.  But
> where does it go relative to the possessive and
> topicalizing suffixes?  Before them, between them or
> after them?  Is it
>    
>   verengan Ha'DIbaH ghaH be'nalwI''e' wa'DIch   ,
>   verengan Ha'DIbaH ghaH be'nalwI' wa'DIch'e'   , or
>   verengan Ha'DIbaH ghaH be'nal wa'DIchwI''e'
>    
>   Or am I just totally out in left field here?
>    
>   Thanks.
>    
>   McA
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