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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/7/2017 10:52 AM, mayqel qunenoS
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<pre wrap="">The verb {chep} means "to be prosperous, to prosper", and so we have
the {yIchep} for "prosper !" (imperative).
But if the only definition given to {chep} was "to be prosperous",
then we couldn't have the {yIchep} and so we would have
{yIchep'eghmoH}, right ?</pre>
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<p>Yes, <b>yIchep</b> violates KGT's rule that imperative verbs
expressing states or qualities just include <b>-'egh</b> and <b>-moH.</b>
The rule has been violated elsewhere too, mostly but not always
before KGT was published.<br>
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<pre wrap="">..and with regards to the {Dab} on the paq'batlh example.
A little bird told me, that according to the KLI mailing list
1999.07.19, "In Klingon, when one lives at a place, he or she is
thought of as occupying or inhabiting it. That is, he or she is not
seen as doing something at a location, but rather as doing something
to it"
So in this context, the {'op ben pa' Dab ngan} should be written
instead {'op ben pa' luDab ngan} for "some years ago inhabitants
resided the there".
The only interpretation of the canon sentence which I could find,
in-keeping with the above list's comment, is "some years ago an
inhabitant resided the there". But I don't think this is the intended
meaning; if only one resides somewhere, then this somewhere hardly
qualifies as being alive and prosperous.</pre>
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<p>I can think of three possibilities:</p>
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<li>It was supposed to be <b>luDab,</b> and the <b>lu-</b> was
erroneously dropped.</li>
<li>The subject is singular: <i>some years ago an inhabitant
inhabited there.</i> This is not an unreasonable way to render
literally the figurative <i>[the land] was alive,</i> though I
would have expected plural inhabitants.<br>
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<li>It is using <b>pa'</b> as a non-subject, non-object noun
placed before the OVS structure, and <b>Dab</b> here has no
object: <i>some years ago, thereabouts, inhabitants inhabited
(in general).</i> This is not actually ungrammatical, just a
bit odd.<br>
</li>
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