tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 05 13:22:19 2004
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Re: Does {teb} appear anywhere in canon?
taD> So it looks like {teb} is used as:
taD> {HIvje' teb jabwI'} "The waiter fills the glass"
taD> and probably not:
taD> {HIvje' teb taS} "The liquid solution fills the glass"
voragh> Agreed. There's no evidence from canon for this intransitive use of
voragh> {teb}.
Actually, both uses are transitive, since both verbs have an object -
the glass. It's the relationship of the verb with its subject which
differs, not the transitivity.
voragh> Instead, reverse the sentence and use {ngaS} "contain (have
voragh> inside), fill":
A very good idea. Especially with availability of {-choH[-moH]}, those
words should be able to handle any of several ways of looking at the
situation.
qatlho'qu'!
-marqoS