tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Mar 12 05:31:27 1996
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Re: asking
- From: "Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: asking
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 05:31:27 -0800
> > -- ghunchu'wI'
> > I don't think so. The Addendum is pretty good about clarifying possible
> > ambiguities, and if {tlhob} were really "ask *for* (something), I believe
> > it would have said so. The gloss "request, ask, plead" certainly fits my
> > understanding of a "verb of speaking" -- its object would be the actual
> > question or request.
> >
>
> Except that I've been told by others on this list that when Okrand puts
> multiple meanings in a definition, he does it to *restrict* and not expand
> the definition. So "request" and "plead" seem to me to be restricting
> "ask" to one type of asking - for a thing. You don't "request" a
> question, but you can request an object.
>
> -- ter'eS
Ah, but you're not "requesting" a question, you're requesting an answer, a
solution, an explanation, a reason. Glossed that way, {tlhob} strikes me as
nicely meeting everyone's needs, as a verb of speaking and as focusing on the
notion that the "request" involves a transaction (not involving objects, but
rather information).
Lawrence
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