tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Feb 10 11:44:09 1998
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Re: KLBC Poetry (the child is happy)
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC Poetry (the child is happy)
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 01:35:23 -0500
From: William H. Martin <[email protected]>
>We also have {ja'chuq} as a listing in the word list and it has
>been stated that it was not among the special words like
>{lo'laH} which have become whole words independent of their
>root-affix origins.
No, Okrand said he was going to address the question of {ja'chuq} in another
post, but I don't think he ever did. If it *is* {ja'}+{-chuq}, then you're
quite right, the object is clearly the person being spoken to. If it's a
single word {ja'chuq}, then it's not relevant to this discussion anyway.
>I'm relatively certain that in PK's jokes {ja'} is
>used with the person addressed as the object.
No, {ja'} is not used in any of the jokes, and {ja'} has never taken an
explicit noun as an object. The jokes contain {jatlh}, {jang}, and {tlhob}.
>That null prefix has stood in the way of clarifying things like
>this in more than one setting.
Yes indeed.
SuStel
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