tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Nov 03 19:28:54 1996
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RE: KLBC - Trick or Treat
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: RE: KLBC - Trick or Treat
- Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 22:28:15 -0500
ghItlhpu' taDI'oS vIq:
>bIDubqu'! Hol wIghojmeH, batlh wISuqmeH je wIja'chuq 'ej tlhIngan Hol wIlo'
ghItlh SuStel:
>{wIja'chuq} We discuss what? Perhaps you mean {tlhIngan Hol wIja'chuq}?
>(I'm not even going to get into the question of whether {ja'chuq} can be
>considered a seperate, transitive verb . . .) There was no other context to
>suggest anything else. Still, I'm unsure . . .
Change the prefix to make it {maja'chuq} "we confer", and it makes
perfect sense to me. If we consider {ja'chuq} to be {ja'} + {-chuq},
then it must have a "no object" verb prefix (TKD 4.2.1 page 36).
(The rest of SuStel's comments are right on target, of course!)
-- ghunchu'wI'