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Re: Verbs of Saying



From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
>But in these cases, /pong/ has an object, and an utterance, and I got
>the implication from the discussion of /jatlh/ that a verb of saying
>could have either an object or an accompanying utterance, but not
>both.  Or would you consider legal something like ?/"bImej vIneH"
>mu'tlhegh vIjatlh/ (translating, I guess as "'I want to leave' I
>speak a sentence")?

The rules so far *do* allow for this possibility, and I do not see any such
implication.  This is not a condonement, simply a fact.

SuStel
Stardate 98633.5





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