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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] {-Ha'} with {-Qo'}

Fiat Knox ([email protected]) 

<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Grammatically, you can get away with this combination of suffixes. -Ha' goes immediately after the verb, which sounds as if that means that it is injected just before the Type 1 to Type 9 suffixes; and -Qo' goes into the list after all other verb suffixes except a Type 9, so it would be injected between the Type 8 and Type 9, and it is considered a rover because it is the imperative form of -be'.<br><br>I could see it being used in {HIlobHa'Qo'} /Don't you disobey me!/ by an angry parent, or as a warning to someone about to do something foolish - {naDev SutlIj yItuQHa'moHQo'!} /Don't get undressed HERE!/<br><br>I imagine that, for those times when one hasn't the time to rephrase something in a positive way - {HIlob!} or {naDev bItuQtaHnIS} - you can still get away with using -Ha' and -Qo' together.<br><br><div><blockquote
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<div><div dir="ltr">ghItlhpu' De'vID, jatlh:<br>&gt; I almost said to someone *{qeylIS pong yIlo'Ha'Qo'} "Don't misuse Kahless' name".<br>&gt; But I stopped when I realised that {-Ha'} and {-Qo'} can't both be used together.<br><br>&gt; Or can they? What's the natural way to express "Don't V" where V is a verb with {-Ha'}?<br><br>{qeylIS pong yIlo'Ha'Qo'} feels like the perfect way to say "don't misuse Kahless's name".<br></div></div></div></div> </div> </div> </blockquote>  </div></div></body></html>
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