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Re: Body paerts and verb prefixes

David Trimboli ([email protected])

• From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Body paerts and verb prefixes
• Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 08:49:42 -0500
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From: "Se'noj le'umaS" <[email protected]>


> When using verb prefixes, espesically imperatives, with the object of the
> verb being a body part, espescially the speaker's, is the body part
> considered part of the speaker?
> i.e.
> Which is correct: {{Sa'HutwIj HIchop}} pagh {{Sa'HutwIj yIchop}}?
>
> Personally, I prefer the former, because if you bite my arse, you are, in
> effect, biting me, though I can see a possibility for it to be considered
> ungrammatical.

You are not a body part.  The second sentence is correct.

mu'aw' mInDu'wIj
My eyes sting.  (Literally, "My eyes sting me.")  (Conversational Klingon)

There are likely other examples.

SuStel
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