[tlhIngan Hol] Adjective suffixes

[Lieven]

Am 13.12.2016 um 17:16 schrieb SuStel:>> I think TKD is very clear on that:
>> "If a Type 5 noun suffix is used, it follows the verb, which, when
>> used to modify the noun in this way, can have no other suffix except
>> the rover -qu'."

> suffix on it; it says that an adjectival verb can have no suffix besides
> *-qu',

Yes, that's how I also see it.

> Since Okrand has obviously violated the only*-qu'* rule many times, it

please, examples.

> So you wouldn't allow words like *Quchlaw'*/he seems to be happy/ or
> *tujbej*/it is definitely hot/? Of course you would, yet these are no
> more "actions" than the verbs in *tlhIngan Quch* /happy Klingon /and
> *QuQ tuj*/hot engine./

I disagree.
{Quchlaw' loD} is a phrase/sentence "Verb+Subject". The "action" is 
being happy. What is he doing? He is being happy.

{loD Quchlaw'} is not a phrase/sentence that can stand alone. There is 
no "action" in the sense of something happening. It's a noun plus a 
descriptive word.

Actually, in English it's the same:
"red man" is something else than "the man is red".

> **Duj tInlaw'* means a ship that is apparently big; *DujHey tIn* means a
> big thing that might be a ship. Not the same thing.

This is your interpretation here. At this point, nobody knows what it 
really "means".

It was you who taught me not to assume that things may mean something 
just because you think that's what they mean before having canon rules 
about them.


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