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DaHjaj Hol 111117 diminuation #tlhIngan #tlh

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Hello, and welcome. You’re listening to DaHjaj Hol, your daily dose of Klingon language. I’m your host, Lawrence Schoen.

Today we come to our penultimate suffix, the Type I noun suffix –Hom. Capital H, O, M. –Hom is a diminuation suffix. Whatever noun it’s attached to will be perceived as smaller, less powerful, or less important. Like it’s augmenting opposite number (which we’ll talk about next week), this suffix produces very subjective results in meaning. Which is not to say you shouldn’t use it, but use it with care.

SuSHom vuvbe’ qoH
a fool does not respect a breeze

qoqvaD paqHom vInob
I gave the booklet to the robot

chaq yuQHomwIj DaSuch
perhaps you will visit my planetoid

may’HomDaq Heghpu’ vavlI’
your father died in the skirmish

 

Sometime, you might find yourself searching for the right word for something in English and you’ll realize that it doesn’t exist in that language, but does in Klingon because of the diminuation suffix you just learned. When that sometime hits you, you’re going to be amazed. qo’mey poSmoH Hol.

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