tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 01 17:05:26 1997
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RE: Okrand on /jatlh/
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Okrand on /jatlh/
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 97 22:10:29 UT
[email protected] on behalf of Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
> And some more discussion on the
> slippage between indirect and direct objects, showing that they work more
> or less like we expected.
Although with one additional point: that one needn't have an explicitly-stated
object in order to use a prefix to indicate indirect object.
Apparently, when Okrand says "object" in TKD, he means just that: any kind of
object, whether it is direct or indirect. I'm beginning to think that perhaps
Klingons don't make that sort of dictinction until they encounter a sentence
with two objects, where the prefix cannot distinguish them. Okrand did say
this rule applied to first- and second-person. Perhaps an object is an object
is an object, and you can use it any way you please.
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