[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: SuH
Steven Boozer
sboozer at uchicago.edu
Wed Mar 30 09:13:37 PDT 2016
mayql qunenoS wrote:
>> thank you Ca'non master ! however this confused me :
>>
>> not Hub'eghrupHa' lo'wI'
>> the user is never caught at a disadvantage. SP2
>>
>> I thought that {-Ha'} always occurs immediately after the verb, before
>> any other suffixes.
TKD 47f.: It is interesting that {-Ha'} always occurs right after the verb. It is not known why Klingon grammarians insist on calling it a rover. It was felt best not to argue with Klingon tradition, however, so {-Ha'} is here classified as a rover.
>> Why is it after the {-rup}?
Technically {-Ha'} is a Rover and can go theoretically anywhere, although it almost always makes more sense to put it right after the verb. E.g.
yISo'Ha'rup, yIghuS
"Stand by to de-cloak for firing". (ST5)
If {-Ha'} *always* came after the verb that would make it a Type 1 (V1) suffix, which it isn't. At least according to traditional Klingon grammarians.
SuStel:
> Until such time as Okrand says otherwise, just consider it an error.
Perhaps not an error, more a subtlety: {Hub} VERB + {-'egh} V1 + {-rup} V2 + {-Ha'} ROVER. He was trying to translate "caught at a disadvantage" given him by the SkyBox people.
I guess we've discovered why they insist on calling it a rover. Perhaps {-Ha'} roved around more in an earlier stage of the language. Or perhaps the ST5 example is a feature of Clipped Klingon, uttered in the excitement of battle.
--
Voragh
tlhIngan ghantoH pIn'a'
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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