While the answer is historically accurate, I’m not sure it addresses the question. {yIH lI’be’} or “useless tribbles” are tribbles that are not useful. It’s a simple negation. *yIH lI’Ha’* would be something like misuseful tribbles (like maybe someone thought they’d be good candidates to guard a shipment of quadrotriticalli), or unuseful tribbles, as if somehow the tribbles were reversed from the state of having been useful through some prior event or process, like, I don’t know, maybe they became stale? In any case *yIHmey lI’Ha’* would be highly unusual tribbles, and I’d need to hear the story behind how they got that way. pItlh charghwI’ ‘utlh (ghaH, ghaH, -Daj)
On Nov 2, 2023, at 10:03 AM, Lieven L. Litaer via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org> wrote:
Hi,
I remember a discussion and an explanation about using {-Ha'} vs. {-be'}, or am I wrong? Was it ever explained?
Why is it {yIH lI'be'} instead of {yIH lI'Ha'}?
I think I vaguely remember seing an answer to this, but I just can't find it.
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