tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Nov 22 10:26:55 1997
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Re: 'Iv qeylIS betleH chenmoHlu'?
ja' charghwI':
>Well, {ja'chuqlu'} is possible with current grammar, but no
>other prefix will work on it and there can be no object.
[SFX: stretch...stretch...snap!]
I can *almost* wrap my brain around this. {-chuqlu'} would imply to me that
part of a plural indefinite subject does something to another part of the
plural indefinite subject. I can manage to see what it's saying, but I can
not quite hold onto it. It's very, very odd-sounding. I can't come up with
a simple way to express the idea in English; all I can say is something like
"A telling-each-other occurs." Its intended meaning is reasonably specific,
but it's hard for me to describe. "One tells one another" just doesn't do it.
-- ghunchu'wI'