[tlhIngan Hol] doubly {-meH}ed nouns

SuStel sustel at trimboli.name
Wed May 15 07:15:14 PDT 2019


On 5/15/2019 10:02 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
> We know that we can say {-bogh 'ej -bogh noun}, and we said that it
> would be correct to say {-meH 'ej -meH noun}.
>
> But I wonder, whether we could say too {-bogh 'ej -meH noun}, and of
> course the variant {-meH 'ej -bogh noun}.
>
> For example:
>
> {Suvbogh 'ej ngongmeH Duj}
> ship in order to experiment, and which fights
>
> {mutlhmeH 'ej potlhbogh Sommi'}
> tool which is important, and in order to construct

Probably not. At least, any English style guide will tell you that the 
separate components should always have "equal syntactic importance" 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_(grammar)#Coordinating_conjunctions). 
So far, I believe every canonical example of conjunctions in Klingon 
have followed that.

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