9 Nov
2021
9 Nov
'21
12:50 p.m.
On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 12:36 PM SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:
I don't think that's it at all. The suffixes appear in the order they do for a reason. You'll note that they frequently mimic in reverse the order of elements we add to words in English. Putting *-Ha'* and *-Qo'* into the category of "rovers" is just a bit of "Klingons are stubborn" humor in the novelty book he wrote.
I wonder if *-Ha'* and *-Qo*' were relatively late additions to the suffix inventory. Maybe when MO decided they would work better "between" existing suffix slots, he didn't want to renumber all the other suffix categories around them, so he just made them rovers.