Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:59:57 +0000 From: "janSIy ." <kenjutsuka@live.com> To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
jatlh James Landau:
I was just thinking . . . if -Daq and other such noun suffixes can appear at the end of stative verbs that follow the nouns, aren't they really clitics >instead of "noun suffixes"? Even without that feature, it's already arguable that the type 5 noun suffixes are clitics. They don't actually modify the noun, but rather perform a >syntactic purpose within the larger verb clause. The very title of the group and description in TKD imply that they are really clitics and not true >affixes. None-the-less, treating them as noun suffixes that follow all the other noun suffixes makes it much easier for non-linguists and keeps the >description simpler and more consistent. If you are asking whether a linguistic description of the features of Klingon should note that these are actually clitics, then I would accept that as >most likely true. If you are asking whether we should stop calling them suffixes when talking about them in the Klingonist community, then I give >a very forceful, "No!"
That makes sense, janSIy. I guess I have a definitive answer. Meanwhile, there were two puns from the new qep'a' words that stuck out at me immediately: HalSIH (oil): *HISlaH*, the word for "yes", backwards. As in "Langue d'Oil". reqnub (sclera): "Bunker" backwards. Archie Bunker was a White supremacist. The sclera is called the "white" of your eyes.