<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 6:36 PM Daniel Dadap <<a href="mailto:daniel@dadap.net">daniel@dadap.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I don’t remember ever seeing a rule against using type nine verb suffixes with an imperative prefix. At the same time, I also cannot think of any sane reason one would want to do this, nor can I coax any example I can think of where a verb has both an imperative prefix and a type nine suffix into making any kind of sense.<br>
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I’m pretty sure that type nine suffixes and imperative prefixes can’t coexist, but maybe I’m just not being imaginative enough. Can anybody think of an example where a type nine suffix somehow marks an imperative verb and actually means something useful?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Possibly it seems like there's no sane reason because literal translation won't work. Likewise, Klingons might think it's insane to have a sentence like, "Identify the ship in which he fled!" Languages have plenty of expressions that don't make literal sense, like "What does God need with a starship?"</div><div><br></div><div>While there's no reason to believe Type 9 suffixes are ever used on verbs with imperative prefixes, who wants to walk into a bar full of Klingons and tell them they're not allowed to? So let's suppose Klingons actually do this and we cobble together an example and try to figure out what meaning it's supposed to convey. For instance, <b>*yIruchchugh bIQap!</b> Weird, but I'd guess it's something like a condensed version of <b>yIruch! bIruchchugh bIQap</b> or <b>yIruch bIruchchugh bIQapmo'!</b> Perhaps it's more exhortative than imperative.</div><div><br></div><div>~mIp'av</div><div><br></div></div></div>