SuStel:
jatlhqu'meH tlhIngan Hol naQ law' Quenya naQ puS jIH: Or is it rather "in order that he/they speaks/speak a lot, klingon is more complete than quenya" ? SuStel My intention was is the last one
Perhaps the reason of my confusion, becomes clearer now. If instead of {jatlhqu'meH tlhIngan Hol naQ law' Quenya naQ puS}, we had {jatlhqu'lu'meH tlhIngan Hol naQ law' Quenya naQ puS} meaning "in order for someone to speak..", then I could have understood the meaning better. Reading the {jatlhqu'meH tlhIngan Hol naQ law' Quenya naQ puS} and understanding "in order that he/they speaks/speak a lot, klingon is more complete than quenya", I begun to wonder who the "he/they" was/were. Let alone that I did the mistake of thinking that the {tlhIngan Hol} was part of the {meH}ed construction, as opposed to the law'/puS construction. qunnoq On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 4:35 PM, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:
On 7/31/2017 8:38 AM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
SuStel:
jatlhqu'meH tlhIngan Hol naQ law' Quenya naQ puS
SuStel let me ask you.. At this sentence, the {jatlhqu'meH tlhIngan Hol} is a {meH}ed noun, something like {QongmeH Duj} ?
Or does it mean "in order that klingon speaks a lot..", which sounds somewhat strange ?
Or is it rather "in order that he/they speaks/speak a lot, klingon is more complete than quenya" ?
My intention was is the last one, though remember, -qu' doesn't only mean a lot, it also (and perhaps primarily) intensifies the element it's attached to. I intended the intensification. For SPEAKING (as opposed to something else) Klingon is more complete than Quenya. The something else is described in the next sentence: mu' mung qun je HaDmeH for studying word origin and history.
If you interpreted jatlhqu'meH tlhIngan Hol as a -meH'd noun (I did not intend that), you'd still get more less the same meaning. Klingon for SPEAKING (as opposed to something else) is more complete than Quenya. The -qu' wouldn't mean quite what I wanted, though, since I wasn't comparing Klingon for speaking with Klingon for studying word origins; I was comparing Klingon versus Quenya for speaking and Klingon versus Quenya for word origins.
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