tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Apr 20 03:04:23 2002
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Re: to'nech 71-80
At 13:54 2002-04-19 -0400, David Trimboli wrote:
> > K: DujlIj luvoq tIra'!
> > Gloss: Order them to trust your instincts!
>[noting the lack of a 'e']
>The only words that are actually verbs of speaking are /jatlh/ and /ja'/.
>Anything else is just a regular verb.
TKD 6.2 says net/'e' aren't used "with verbs (say, tell, ask, etc.)". I
wasn't terribly sure what would constitute a "verb of saying", but inferred
that it wasn't just two words, what with the "etc." there. And "ask" seems
to mean that {tlhob} is in that class too, even tho that's not a verb of
declaring/informing.
So I took a stab and inferred that anything denotes an action that I think
of as prototypically involving saying something, gets to be in that class
of things that take no net/'e'.
Even that's a fuzzy set tho -- for example, if ra' is in that set, is
jach? tung? chup? nubmoH? naD? Gotta draw the line somewhere, I guess.
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Sean M. Burke http://www.spinn.net/~sburke/