<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>While the answer is historically accurate, I’m not sure it addresses the question.</div><div><br></div><div>{yIH lI’be’} or “useless tribbles” are tribbles that are not useful. It’s a simple negation.</div><div><br></div><div>*yIH lI’Ha’* would be something like misuseful tribbles (like maybe someone thought they’d be good candidates to guard a shipment of quadrotriticalli), or unuseful tribbles, as if somehow the tribbles were reversed from the state of having been useful through some prior event or process, like, I don’t know, maybe they became stale?</div><div><br></div><div>In any case *yIHmey lI’Ha’* would be highly unusual tribbles, and I’d need to hear the story behind how they got that way.</div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Nov 2, 2023, at 10:03 AM, Lieven L. Litaer via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>Hi,<br><br>I remember a discussion and an explanation about using {-Ha'} vs.<br>{-be'}, or am I wrong? Was it ever explained?<br><br>Why is it {yIH lI'be'} instead of {yIH lI'Ha'}?<br><br>I think I vaguely remember seing an answer to this, but I just can't<br>find it.<br><br>--<br>Lieven L. Litaer<br>aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany"<br>http://www.tlhInganHol.com<br>http://klingon.wiki/En/Rover<br>_______________________________________________<br>tlhIngan-Hol mailing list<br>tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org<br>http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>