<p dir="ltr">I'm happy to read your reply, because it expresses my own views on the matter..</p>
<p dir="ltr">I noticed that you translated the {mIghchu' Dujvam} as "this ship is totally evil". And while I was writing the original post, this is exactly what I had in mind.</p>
<p dir="ltr">All the other sentences, express a magnitude of sorts.. It is as if they answer to the question "how much evil is this ship" ? So, they say something like "a lot of evil" "excessively evil" and so on..</p>
<p dir="ltr">But the {mIghchu' Dujvam}, doesn't express a quantity. It says "this ship is perfectly evil"; the way I *feel* the "perfectly" is that it is "purely evil". "evil to the core". not 80, 90, 98 percent. no. it is "evil incarnate".</p>
<p dir="ltr">Now, why is this important ? </p>
<p dir="ltr">I read somewhere at the klingon wiki, that perhaps by the use of a construction such as {tlhoy mIghqu' Dujvam} we could form a superlative of sorts (if that's the correct term).</p>
<p dir="ltr">but I think that by the use of the {-chu'} we could achieve the same. Of course a lot has to do with context and obviously the {-chu'} and the {tlhoy ...qu' noun} aren't interchangeable, but I think that the {-chu'} is a wonderful addition to our linguistic options.</p>
<p dir="ltr">DaH, jIQong !</p>
<p dir="ltr">qunnoH<br>
ghoghwIj HablI'vo' vIngeHta'</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 Nov 2016 9:31 pm, "SuStel" <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 11/23/2016 2:21 PM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:<br>
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wa'maH tup ret, jIQongrup 'a pay' nargh qay'wI'vam:<br>
<br>
read these sentences:<br>
<br>
a. mIghqu' Dujvam<br>
b. mIghchu' Dujvam<br>
c. tlhoy mIgh Dujvam<br>
d. tlhoy mIghqu' Dujvam<br>
e. tlhoy mIghchu' Dujvam<br>
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first question:<br>
which of these ships is the most evil ?<br>
<br>
Now, I think that the sentences d and e, although they are grammaticaly correct (at least I think they are), they don't "sound good". and because of this reason I wouldn't use them.<br>
<br>
So, we come to the second question:<br>
<br>
a. mIghqu' Dujvam<br>
b. mIghchu' Dujvam<br>
c. tlhoy mIgh Dujvam<br>
<br>
Of these three ships, which is the most evil ?<br>
<br>
and finally..<br>
<br>
a. mIghqu' Dujvam<br>
b. mIghchu' Dujvam<br>
c. tlhoy mIgh Dujvam<br>
d. Duj mIgh law' Hoch mIgh puS<br>
<br>
Same question: which of the ships above is the most evil ?<br>
<br>
maj ! DaH jIQong..<br>
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Play the same game in English.<br>
<br>
a. this ship is very evil<br>
b. this ship is totally evil<br>
c. this ship is too evil<br>
d. this ship is too very-evil<br>
e. this ship is too completely evil<br>
<br>
Which ship is the most evil?<br>
<br>
-- <br>
SuStel<br>
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