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

[Will Martin]

I’ll just add that it seems that certain noun pairs that occur together commonly, like {veS} and {Duj} become compound nouns, like {veSDuj}. It’s not the case that you can mash any two nouns together because they happen to occur on a rare occasion. Klingon is not German.

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> On Oct 16, 2015, at 3:50 PM, Lieven <levinius at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> Am 16.10.2015 um 19:51 schrieb qunnoQ HoD:
>> why {veSDuj} and not {veS Duj} ?
> 
> A more general answer:
> 
> First, Okrand has once answered to this kind of questions that since Klingon was intended as a spoken (not written) language, he did not think much about the difference of compound nouns being written with or without space, because you don't hear the difference.
> 
> Next, Okrand does not follow a specific pattern, he even sometimes writes the same word with or without space (unintentionally).
> 
> Third, there still is not much difference in the meaning. Compare the english translations "warship" and "ship of war".
> 
> The only difference there is, is that when with two separate words, the first word may take a suffix, which will not work with some of the compound words. You cannot tear apart all of the compound nouns.
> 
> Briefly summarizing, we don't know for sure, and simply need to accept that's it's just the way it is. You cannot drive in a parkway, but you park in the driveway.
> 
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