[Tlhingan-hol] Loose Klingon

[Robyn Stewart]

At 18:43 28/11/2011, ghunchu'wI' 'utlh wrote:
>On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:11 PM, David Trimboli <david at trimboli.name> wrote:
> > Verbs as nouns
> > These keep showing up.
>
>Example? (I don't consider the paq'batlh chapter titles to be nouns.)

For the record a lot of my nuq bop bom chapter 
titles are verbs or verbal concepts. It just 
seems more natural in Klingon, and I would 
translate many of them into English as nouns 
without trying to imply in any way that they were 
nouns in the Klingon original.

> > what if most verbs can indeed be used as nouns—at least, the ones that seem
> > to have obvious meanings as nouns?
>
>There's a basic difficulty with that idea. Different people often have
>different ideas of what is an obvious meaning. It would be nice if we
>didn't have multiple opinions about whether the noun meaning
>would/should refer to the action of the verb, or to its result, or to
>a possible agent, etc.

Hear hear.