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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/16/2020 10:07 AM, Hugh Son puqloD
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Jan 16, 2020, at 08:59, mayqel qunen'oS <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true"><mihkoun@gmail.com></a> wrote:
This whole matter <b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>feels<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> to me like, combining {-lu'} with {-wI'}, thus writing something like {leghlu'wI'}, which I don't <b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>feel<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> as something actually making sense.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I’ve heard arguments that something like {leghlu'wI'} <b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>could<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> mean something like “one that is seen” (i.e., the {-lu'} “flips” {-wI'} so that the formed noun is the object of the verb rather than the subject, much in the way that {-lu'} “flips” prefixes), and I can sort of see the train of thought that leads there, but I am unconvinced that it actually works that way and I am nearly certain it’s not supported by canon.</pre>
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<p>It isn't.</p>
<p>And this analysis relies on the idea that <b>-lu'</b> "flips"
the subject of the verb to the object, when it does no such thing.
<b>-lu'</b> simply means the subject is indefinite instead of
definite. The object remains the same. The prefix "flipping" is
simply an acknowledgement that, since there is no subject, the
first and only argument to the verb to consider is the object.</p>
<p><b>jIH mulegh HoD</b><i> The captain sees me</i> is a sentence
with a definite subject.</p>
<p><b>jIH vIleghlu'</b><i> Someone indefinite sees me</i> describes
the same situation with an indefinite subject. There is no
"flipping."<br>
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<p>English passive voice "flips" the object to the subject, but this
is completely different from Klingon <b>-lu'.</b> The grammar of
a translation does not govern the grammar of the original.<br>
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