tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon May 05 20:29:28 2008

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Re: latlh

Terrence Donnelly ([email protected])

• From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: latlh
• Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 20:27:32 -0700 (PDT)
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--- ghunchu'wI' <[email protected]> wrote:

> On May 5, 2008, at 11:01 AM, Doq wrote:
> 
> > I'm not suggesting that it is being used as a
> Klingon adjective. I'm
> > suggesting that it is being used as an English
> one.
> 
> A less contentious interpretation might be to call
> it an "attributive  
> noun".  If you want another example, look at {baS
> 'In}.  Such words  
> indeed act as adjectives in English, but they can
> just as easily fit  
> the Klingon N-N construction alongside other
> genitive uses.
> 

"Of the universal set of drums, the one involving
metal" 8+)

-- ter'eS

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