I'm happy to read your reply, because it expresses my own views on the matter.. I noticed that you translated the {mIghchu' Dujvam} as "this ship is totally evil". And while I was writing the original post, this is exactly what I had in mind. All the other sentences, express a magnitude of sorts.. It is as if they answer to the question "how much evil is this ship" ? So, they say something like "a lot of evil" "excessively evil" and so on.. But the {mIghchu' Dujvam}, doesn't express a quantity. It says "this ship is perfectly evil"; the way I *feel* the "perfectly" is that it is "purely evil". "evil to the core". not 80, 90, 98 percent. no. it is "evil incarnate". Now, why is this important ? I read somewhere at the klingon wiki, that perhaps by the use of a construction such as {tlhoy mIghqu' Dujvam} we could form a superlative of sorts (if that's the correct term). but I think that by the use of the {-chu'} we could achieve the same. Of course a lot has to do with context and obviously the {-chu'} and the {tlhoy ...qu' noun} aren't interchangeable, but I think that the {-chu'} is a wonderful addition to our linguistic options. DaH, jIQong ! qunnoH ghoghwIj HablI'vo' vIngeHta' On 23 Nov 2016 9:31 pm, "SuStel" <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:
On 11/23/2016 2:21 PM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
wa'maH tup ret, jIQongrup 'a pay' nargh qay'wI'vam:
read these sentences:
a. mIghqu' Dujvam b. mIghchu' Dujvam c. tlhoy mIgh Dujvam d. tlhoy mIghqu' Dujvam e. tlhoy mIghchu' Dujvam
first question: which of these ships is the most evil ?
Now, I think that the sentences d and e, although they are grammaticaly correct (at least I think they are), they don't "sound good". and because of this reason I wouldn't use them.
So, we come to the second question:
a. mIghqu' Dujvam b. mIghchu' Dujvam c. tlhoy mIgh Dujvam
Of these three ships, which is the most evil ?
and finally..
a. mIghqu' Dujvam b. mIghchu' Dujvam c. tlhoy mIgh Dujvam d. Duj mIgh law' Hoch mIgh puS
Same question: which of the ships above is the most evil ?
maj ! DaH jIQong..
Play the same game in English.
a. this ship is very evil b. this ship is totally evil c. this ship is too evil d. this ship is too very-evil e. this ship is too completely evil
Which ship is the most evil?
-- SuStel http://trimboli.name
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