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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/14/2017 10:29 AM, Ed Bailey wrote:<br>
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<blockquote
cite="mid:CABSTb1eCWoUx5oDHT1R8NWQz_W4NBNCkTY=zH3uOCzmJdaq_5w@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">There actually is one canon word that seems to be an
unsuffixed verb with <b>-ghach</b>: <b>lo'laHghach</b>. Unless
you consider it a nominalization of <b>lo'</b>.</blockquote>
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It's a nominalization of <b>lo' + -laH.</b> The example in TKD
starts with <b>lo'</b> <i>use</i> and builds it up from there.<br>
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<blockquote
cite="mid:CABSTb1eCWoUx5oDHT1R8NWQz_W4NBNCkTY=zH3uOCzmJdaq_5w@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite"> I seem to recall Okrand saying a bare verb stem plus
<b>-ghach</b> is something that might occur in jargon, so <b>*jeDghach
</b>could be scientific jargon for viscosity (or less likely, for
density).</blockquote>
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<p>Okrand <a
href="http://klingonska.org/canon/search/?file=1994-09-holqed-03-3-a.txt&q=ghach">says</a>:</p>
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<p>It's a highly marked form. It's a word you are forming for a
specific occasion and a specific effect. If you were a poet or
philosopher or hard scientist and had to describe something very
specifically these kinds of words might be appropriate but it
carries the feeling of very technical arcane vocabulary, not
normal everyday stuff. So can you say it? Yes, but you are
saying more, rather than less or neutral.</p>
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<p>It's not that <b>-ghach</b> occurs on bare stems in scientific
jargon; it's that a scientist trying to explain something arcane
that doesn't already have a word might throw <b>-ghach</b> on a
bare verb to make a point. You're coining a word of the moment,
not finding it in a textbook.</p>
<p>Basically, the effect of <b>-ghach</b> on a bare verb is the
same as putting scare-quotes around a word you just made up.<br>
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