tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 14 21:00:58 2014
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Multiple verb suffixes
On Apr 14, 2014, at 11:14 PM, "Bellerophon, modeler" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I wish now I could remember the example someone on this list cited, in which they interpreted a suffix as applying to the verb + the following suffix. It seems like it was something along the lines of {lo'moHlaH}, interpreted as "make usable" instead of "can cause to use." At the time I had no more reason to question this interpretation than a vague feeling.
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> It seems like the combined action of multiple suffixes would be an important grammatical rule, though I have never seen one stated.
Power Klingon's suggested formula for declining an offered liaison:
DaH jIbwIj vISay'nISmoH
"I must wash my hair now."
Suffixes come in a specific order. That order does not always lend itself to translation in that rigid order.
-- ghunchu'wI'
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