tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 09 06:19:56 1998
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{jang} (was Re: KLBC Poetry)
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: {jang} (was Re: KLBC Poetry)
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 98 09:13:47 EST
><< > edy jang Qov: >>
>
>---peHruS notices the transitive use of {jang}---
>
>>From discussions commented on by ghunchu'wI' and charghwI', possibly
>>others, I
>have picked out this lone line.
>
>Until now, I have only used {jang} intransitively, giving EdyvaD jang Qov, for
>example.
>If {jang} took an object, I had assumed that object to be the question being
>answered.
>
>Comments on this transitive use of {jang}. Who likes it?
As I'm the one whose lone line you are quoting, *I* obviously like it.
I treat {jang} much like I treat {tlhob}, as a verb of saying. I use
the person being addressed as the object of the verb. I don't think I
need to wait for Okrand to confirm this, but I'll stop immediately if
he contradicts my usage.
-- ghunchu'wI'