On 1/12/2018 9:23 AM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
Anyway, if the canon way of expressing the intended meaning is {tu'lu'be'}, then I'm ok with it. But is it canon indeed ?
First off, both *tu'be'lu'* and *tu'lu'be'* are canon. *SuvwI'pu' qan tu'lu'be'. */There are no old warriors. /(TKW) *QuvlIjDaq yIH tu'be'lu'jaj */May your coordinates be free of tribbles./ (PK) Next, canon supports the idea that rovers do not necessarily only affect the immediately preceding element. While this is true sometimes (e.g., the *choHoHvIp* examples in TKD) it is not true always. For instance: *nom yIghoSqu' */Maximum speed!/ (ST5) *-qu'* is intensifying the entire sentence, not just the verb. *Hoch DaSopbe'chugh batlh bIHeghbe' */Eat everything or you will die without honor. /*-be'* is negating the entire main clause, not just the verb. Finally, as Lieven says, *tu'lu'* appears to be a somewhat fixed phrase that doesn't always work as a standard basic sentence. Although *tu'* means /discover,/ *tu'lu'* is often used where no discovery occurs; it merely signifies a thing's presence. In this sense it may be considered an idiom whose formula you simply follow. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name