tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Oct 02 21:17:44 2004
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Re: just use it! (Re: jIb
- From: "QeS lagh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: just use it! (Re: jIb
- Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 14:16:11 +1000
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ghItlhpu' ngabwI':
>Direct quotes are done with {jatlh}:
>{jatlh: "blah, blah, blah"} "He said, 'Blah, blah, blah'"
jangpu' lay'tel SIvten:
>Direct quotes are done with {jatlh} and *zero-object prefixes*:
>{jIjatlh: "blah, blah, blah"} 'I said, "Blah, blah, blah"
lughmoH ghunchu'wI':
>TKD demonstrates direct quotes with the word {qaja'}.
Completely correct. Remember that in this case the syntactic "direct object"
the prefix refers to is semantically a benefactive or dative object (what
would usually be given in a fuller sentence as {X-vaD}), not a semantic
direct object. Viz:
{DaH yInargh} qajatlh - "Escape now!", I said to you (= {DaH yInargh} SoHvaD
jIjatlh)
moQ HInob - give me the ball! (= jIHvaD moQ yInob)
Savan.
QeS lagh
not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' qan je
(Old roads and old friends will never deceive you)
- Ubykh Hol vIttlhegh
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