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Re: Does {teb} appear anywhere in canon?

Alan Anderson ([email protected])

• From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Does {teb} appear anywhere in canon?
• Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 20:43:02 -0500
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ja' Voragh:
>>marqoS wrote:
>>> > I'm trying to determine there is any evidence as to whether the
>>> > subject of {teb} is the agent or the substance.
>
>AFAIK we only have two examples.
>
>taD:
>>In the Power Klingon audio tape, we have the phrase:
>>
>>   "Fill a large glass!"
>>   {HIvje' tIn yIteb}
>
>The other is in the Frasier speech:
>
>   lenglIj lutebjaj lengwIjvaD bel rap, Sov [rap, ngoQ rap je] Danobpu'bogh
>   May your journey be filled with the same joy, wisdom, and purpose you have
>   given mine.
>
>>So it looks like {teb} is used as:
>>   {HIvje' teb jabwI'} "The waiter fills the glass"
>
>Agreed.
>
>>and probably not:
>>   {HIvje' teb taS} "The liquid solution fills the glass"
>
>Agreed.  There's no evidence from canon for this intransitive use of
>{teb}.

The Frasier speech is such evidence, is it not?  leng luteb bel Sov ngoQ je.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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