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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/6/2017 11:27 AM, mayqel qunenoS
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAP7F2cKtmA=UVobNTOcPod+aMtydP=fQQCuRMT757M8Tujhvkw@mail.gmail.com">SuStel:
<div dir="auto">> <b
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">pa'
SoHtaHbe'chugh vaj meyrI' SoH</b></div>
<i style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">if you are
not there then you are a square</i>
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style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br>
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<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">The placement
of {-be'} confuses me. If we choose to place it after the
{-taH} then doesn't the meaning become "If you aren't there
continuously" ?</span><i
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br>
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<div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif">Perhaps this is indeed the
intented meaning, the speaker trying to say "if you aren't
continuously there, then..".</font></div>
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<div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif">But wouldn't you accept,
as a more literal way of saying "If you aren't there.." the
{pa' SoHbe'taHchugh..} ?</font></div>
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<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">The only
reasoning I see for placing the {-be'} after the {-taH}, is if
we consider (because of the {pa'}) the {SoHtaH} as an "unable
to be separated pair of words", thus leaving as an only option
the placement of the {-be'} after it.</span></div>
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<p>Since we've gotten some examples of it, I believe <b>-be'</b>
doesn't necessarily negate only the single, immediately preceding
element, but it can refer to the entire preceding concept,
especially for suffixes that aren't typically negated. So what I
said was meant as <b>[SoHtaH]be'chugh</b> instead of <b>SoH[taH]be'chugh.</b></p>
<p>A canonical example of this is from <i>Power Klingon:</i> <b>Hoch
DaSopbe'chugh batlh bIHeghbe'</b><i> if you don't eat everything
you will die without honor.</i> Clearly, <b>-be'</b> here is
referring to the entire phrase <b>batlh bIHegh</b> and not just
the <b>Hegh.</b></p>
<p>Another example from <i>Conversational </i><i>Klingon</i> is <b>vIta'pu'be'</b><i>
I didn't do it.</i> This doesn't mean I did it in a
non-perfective way; the entire verb before the <b>-be'</b> is
being negated as a unit.<br>
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SuStel
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