tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 09 12:43:17 1994
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RE: KLBC: Does this sentence make sense?
>Ah. You may be misunderstanding the verb. "vem" is what you do in the
>morning. It's the act of cessation of sleep, and it's intransitive.
>"vemmoH" is what your alarm clock does to you: it *causes you* to perform
>the act of "vem." So it's more of a transitive verb: you use it to
>indicate that something woke something else, *as opposed to* "vem" which
>is just someone awakening.
>Got it?
I understand, I think. "vem" is the act of waking up. "vemmoH" is to *cause*
something to wake up. Right? So what is the difference between the word
"vemmoH", and putting "-moH" on the word vem? Is there a difference? If there
is'nt, then why is it in the TKD?
Joe Schelin