tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 05 19:03:51 1998
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Re: KLBC: waqmey lutuQ verenganpu'
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: waqmey lutuQ verenganpu'
- Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 19:03:22 -0800
At 16:25 98-01-05 -0800, ghunchu'wI' wrote:
}ja'pu' Qov:
}>>I'm not happy with {qanep} for "I lie to you." I think if anything the
}>lie
}>>not the audience is the object of the verb.
}
}ja' SuStel:
}>If {qajatlh} is valid for "I speak to you" (which we know it is), then I see
}>no reason that {qanep} does not mean "I lie to you." It is a shortened form
}>of {SoHvaD jInep}.
}
}I *do* see a reason for this not to work. I'm not sure {nep} can or should
}be used as a verb of saying, and I don't think {-vaD} makes sense to indicate
}the person being lied to. "I lie for your benefit" sounds like I'm covering
}for you, not deceiving you.
I can't agree with you there. The grammatical beneficiary of an action does
not necessarily benefit from it. {SoHvaD joch Sojvam}. The beneficiary
receives some result of the action, beneficial or otherwise.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian