tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Apr 18 14:34:59 1997
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RE: "verbs of saying" when you're not "saying"
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: "verbs of saying" when you're not "saying"
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 97 23:12:44 UT
On Wednesday, April 16, 1997 8:14 AM, [email protected] on behalf of Marian
Schwartz wrote:
> qoror here. I have something interesting to bring up (I think). To
> quote TKD, "... with verbs of saying (say, ask, tell, etc.) 'e' and net are
not
> used." Well, think about this. Say somebody gives a lower officer an order
by
> long distance. For instance, he might really write it down (don't ask me
why)
> or something else. But in doing it, he doesn't actually -speak-. In the
> sentence, you use the word "ra'," and it's a sentence-as-object
construction.
> Do you use "'e'?"
Self-proclaimed verb-of-saying specialist here. :) The answer to this very
good question is not yet known.
There's a good way around the problem, though.
nav vIHev. vIlaD. jagh vIHIvmeH mura' Sa'.
I received the paper. I read it. In order that I attack the enemy, the
general commanded me.
This also brings up the question of whether words like {laD} can be used as
verbs of saying when used as such. For example,
jIlaD, <jagh yIHIv>.
Can we do this? We don't know.
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SuStel
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