tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Dec 15 09:29:17 2009
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{-ghach} revisited (yet again!)
naHQun:
>> <-ghach> is a whole different story all together.
>> Simple rule: Don't use it unless you know what you're doing.
>> [snip]
>> For most of us, this means don't use -ghach except for words found in
>> the dictionary, until you have a really good feel for it.
Chris:
>It's funny that you say that, because the sense I got from that
>interview (?) with Okrand is that -ghach is ubiquitous and ends up on
>all kinds of words. Not some (e.g., bare stems), but a whole lot. I
>hardly think saying "don't use it unless you know what you are doing"
>is the message that Okrand is conveying there...
Whoa... hardly "ubiquitous"!
Except for the TKD section on {-ghach} (TKD 4.2.9 IIRC?) and an interview about using {-ghach} in HolQeD (HQ 3.3) - where you would expect to find isolated examples, properly and improperly formed - Okrand actually uses it in only ONE sentence (i.e. {quvHa'ghach} "dishonor"):
qaStaHvIS wej puq poHmey vav puqloDpu' puqloDpu'chaj je quvHa'moH
vav quvHa'ghach
The dishonor of the father dishonors his sons and their sons for
three generations. TKW
Although theoretically productive, {-ghach}'ed nouns are almost never used in "authentic" texts. Perhaps such nouns strike the average Klingon warrior as recondite, sesquipedalian or even cacophonous, which would explain its eschewal. <g>
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Voragh
Canon Master of the Klingons