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Re: KLBC: latlh vImugh



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>Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 15:01:37 -0800
>From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
>
>December 09, 1996 6:56 PM, jatlh HurghwI':
>
>> >> DaqI'chugh, SoHvaD Huch law' vInob.
>> >> "If you sign it, I will give you lots of money."
>> >
>> >Other than the fact you'd have to be signing a *treaty*, this is fine.
>> 
>> Do you suppose a contract can be used with this verb? That's what I was
>> trying to get at.
>
>I don't know.  I don't know if Okrand meant "sign, as in a treaty" or "sign a 
>treaty."  I *don't* think it refers to the act of putting your name on a piece 
>of paper (but I could still be wrong).

Probably not the physical act of marking your name on a paper, but perhaps
the act of doing so *in the sense of* agreeing to a treaty/contract/etc.
Intuitively and subjectively, I like the use of "qI'" as a transitive verb
for signing any contract/treaty-like instrument.  For ratifying/agreeing to
any legal document.

~mark

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