tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 09 07:14:30 1998
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Re: KLBC Poetry (the child is happy)
According to [email protected]:
>
> In a message dated 98-02-05 07:45:35 EST, you write:
>
> << > 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?
I thought it was used transitively as a verb of speech in the
PK jokes. Particularly, I thought it was used in the one with
the punch line, "If the bugs don't bite you." I don't have the
text of this with me at the moment, however.
charghwI'