tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Oct 22 23:28:07 1997
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Re: KBLC: ah-ha!
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KBLC: ah-ha!
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 23:28:05 -0700
At 12:25 97-10-22 -0700, muHwI' wrote:
}In einer eMail vom 22.10.97 09:59:26 CETDST, ghItlh Qov:
}
}> Tell me what you think? I'd say: {nuq DaQub? HIja'} "What do you think?
}> Tell me." Notice the imperative prefix {HI-} (command, you - me). Yes
}this
}> looks like the word "yes" but it isn't.
}>
}
}I've been thinking about this a lot, but if you say {HIja'} (tell me)
}wouldn't "me" be the thing being told?
}{lut vIja'} I tell a story [story I-it tell]
}{lut qaja'} I tell you a story [story I-you tell]
}{qaja'} I tell you [I-you tell]
}
}eh... vISovbe' jIH
wISovbe' maH 'ach vay' wIpIH.
I accept all three of the above. Some people argue that because we have
never seen the thing told be the object of {ja'} that the object of {ja'} is
always the person told. Possible. You'll have to consider the evidence and
decide for yourself.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian