tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Feb 24 18:33:54 1998
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Re: KLBC: Re: qechmey vIHutlh
ja' HovqIj:
>1.majatlhchuq. lutmey DIjatlh. -We talk to each other. We tell stories.
>(Note that I changed {ja'chuq} into {jatlhchuq}; I think it's better
>because it can't be misunderstood so easily)
But {ja'chuq} is in the dictionary, and I think it means exactly what you
want it to: "We tell one another. We confer. We talk among ourselves."
{jatlhchuq} is not obviously correct for the meaning you desire. We know
{jatlh} has as its object the thing spoken (a language, a lecture, etc.),
and we know we can use the "prefix trick" to indicate a first- or second-
person addressee, but I'm very reluctant to try to extend the idea of the
prefix-mangling to a reflexive verb suffix.
-- ghunchu'wI'