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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/5/2022 8:16 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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But there's still something I'm wondering. When would it be
appropriate for us to put the {-pu'} on a quality verb? Because
-if my understanding is correct- I can't think of an occasion when
something like this would be needed. So could you write an example
where the {-pu'} would be necessary on a quality verb?</blockquote>
<p>I don't think it's a very sensible thing to do, but it might be
possible. An analogy would be using the English word <i>know</i>
in the present progressive tense. Normally, one wouldn't say <i>I
am knowing it,</i> but there might be special circumstances
where you would say it. <i>Aha! Now I'm learning it and I'm
knowing it!</i> Someone might say something like this to
deliberately make the learning and knowing parallel by forcing
both into the same tense. You might do something similar with
Klingon perfective.</p>
<p>Basically, saying things like <b>jIQuchpu'</b> and <b>SuDalpu'</b>
would sound like <i>I happied</i> and Y<i>ou boringed.</i><br>
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<div>Or perhaps does voragh know of a Ca'Non example where we have
the {-pu'} on a quality/stative verb?</div>
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<p>The only possibility I'm aware of is <b>woQ luSuqmeH jIjpu' chaH
romuluSngan'e' je</b> from Skybox S26, but this is a bad data
point, because <b>jIj</b> was originally glossed as <i>cooperate</i>
and only got the further gloss of <i>be cooperative</i> after
this card was published. I don't automatically take every gloss
that starts with <i>be</i> as proving a quality verb, so I'm not
convinced <b>jIj </b>is one.</p>
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