[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: nab

[Felix Malmenbeck]

Same for me. I very often want to stick suffixes where they don't belong.

Examples of bad grammar I might want to use:
chaH *DaSuvchuqmoHnIS  = You need to make them fight each other
*qaghojlaHmoHqang 'ach qaghojqangmoHlaHbe' = I'm willing to make you able to learn but I'm unable to make you willing to learn
*vIghojmoHqa'laH 'ach vIghojHa'moHlaHbe' = I can resume teaching her but I can't make her unlearn / mislearn.
*yIHub'eghlaHHa'moH = Make him unable to defend himself!

(I only marked the ones that were improperly formed with *; not the ones that were properly formed but mean something other than what was intended)

-----Original Message-----
From: Qov [mailto:robyn at flyingstart.ca] 
Sent: den 15 januari 2012 18:07
To: tlhingan-hol at kli.org
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: nab

Great article.

I missed reading the <bIlugh> in your reply at first so I was in suspense right to the last line of the article as to whether I had forgotten some special rule for *chenmoHnIS.

I used to have a problem with some --nISmoH forms, especially Say'nISmoH because I had used Say'moH to myself so many times in learning vocabulary while doing daily activities. <Say'nISmoH> just felt WRONG, and I was convinced that the same thing must happen to Klingons. I'll still lob a suffix onto the end of a word where it doesn't belong from time to time, but it's usually because the idea expressed was an afterthought now.

At 08:47 15/01/2012, you wrote:
>ghItlhta' Qov, > At any rate, it would be wIchennISmoH bIlugh. 
>Article on -nISmoH vs. -moHnIS (and more): 
>http://klingonska.org/canon/search/?file=1997-11-30-news.txt&get=source


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