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TKD phrase: {-meH} clause

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

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• Subject: TKD phrase: {-meH} clause
• Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 07:48:30 EDT

{Dochvetlh DIlmeH Huch 'ar DaneH} 
How much do you want for that? 
[lit.: How much money do you want in order to pay for that thing?] 
[TKD p.171] phrase #56
Taking another look at this phrase I wonder if it's as ambiguous in Klingon 
as in English.  It seems like something a father might ask his son when the boy 
asks him to let him buy something.
In other words, the listener is the payer, which is definitely not the intent 
here.

Now I would say {Dochvetlh vIDIlmeH Huch 'ar DaneH}, adding {vI-} "I" as the 
explicit subject of {DIlmeH}.  Is context so strong in the paying scenario 
that this sort of explicitness is unnecessary?

lay'tel SIvten

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