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Re: Body parts and verb prefixes

Quvar ([email protected])

• From: Lieven L. Litaer (Quvar) <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Body parts and verb prefixes
• Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:11:49 +0100
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>

Am 27.02.2004 09:22:15, schrieb "Se'noj le'umaS" <[email protected]>:

>Which is correct: {{Sa'HutwIj HIchop}} pagh {{Sa'HutwIj yIchop}}?

{yIchop} The prefix must fit the correct object and subject.

>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.

Indeed. 
Actually, this works parallel to english: you say "kiss MY ass", not "kiss ME ass".
[that's what {Sa'HutwIj HIchop} literally means "My butt, bite me."]

And in case you were thinking of the prefix trick, this doesn't work.
[e.g. {ghIchwIj HInob} "give me your nose"]

I doubt that you can "bite me my ass" or so...

Quvar.

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