<div dir="ltr"><div>Because {-qu'} and intonational emphasis might not express the same thing. See, we have "very" in English, but why do we need it if we can just as well stress the adjective? Wouldn't that be very useful? Wouldn't that be USEFUL? Wouldn't that be VERY useful? Wouldn't that be very USEFUL? Wouldn't that be VERY USEFUL?</div><div><br></div><div>See what I did there? The intonation and use of "very" makes very slight differences in meaning and, well, emphasis, so they're not always interchangable. What exactly the difference is, can be really difficult to determine.</div><div><br></div><div>One interpretation might be, that {-qu'} strengthens the meaning of the preceding verb or suffix, e.g. «jISovbe'qu'.» = I really/absolutely don't know it. Not a tiny little bit of it. On the other hand, the intonation (be it louder, longer, higher pitch or whatever) might just show a contrast or put the emphasis on that preceding suffix, e.g. «jISovBE'.» — I do NOT know it (in contrast to what you just assumed).</div><div><br></div><div>This is what the difference can possibly be about, I'm not saying that it really works exactly like that in Klingon.</div><div><br></div><div>Greetings from Zurich,<br></div><div>— André<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Am Sa., 13. Okt. 2018 um 21:54 Uhr schrieb mayqel qunenoS <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">If in spoken klingon, I'm able to stress the verb suffix which I want to emphasize, then why the jay' would I ever need to use the -qu', after a suffix, while speaking ?<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">~ 'ISterlIng</div></div>
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