On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 11:20 AM, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:

If someone were to write Duj Do'a' Do DoHom vIjuv for I measure the ship's deceleration, would I balk? No. I might even use it myself. Do I know for sure that it's right? No, but it feels right, it doesn't violate any rules, and it is unmistakable.

It feels right to me too. Mostly, I just wanted to express to mayqel that it was an unusual phrase that we didn't know the specific details of, and that there really wasn't a whole lot we knew for sure about the internal logic of the construction as it relates to other noun constructions.

Just out of curiosity, what kinds of "noun series" modelled along variations of beyHom bey bey'a' would also feel right or wrong to you (and other Klingonists reading this)?

Using a -Hom/-0/-'a' series in a non-direct-object role, e.g.: Qe' chu' luSuchtaH ghomHom ghom ghom'a' "Bigger and bigger crowds visited the new restaurant; the new restaurant drew ever-increasing crowds."
Using a different set of suffixes that suggest some other kind of spectrum, e.g.: qa'qoq qa'Hey qa' qa'na' vIleghtaH "I was dismissive of the idea at first but I am increasingly certain that I'm seeing an actual spirit." (This is an awkward translation.)
Not using the same base noun but with a series implied anyway, e.g.: jajlo' po pov tlhom puH DujDaj tI'taH "He worked on his car from dawn to dusk." (This example also uses a non-direct-object series, in this case a series of timestamps.)
Nouns that only imply a series in context: 'awje' qa'vIn wornagh DItlhutlhtaH "We started with 'root beer', then had coffee, and then we drank warnog."