tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jun 06 01:18:59 1997

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Re: jajlo'



In a message dated 97-06-04 03:24:50 EDT, ghunchu'wI' writes:

<< That's pushing it a bit, I think.  {jatlh} appears to have the meaning
 "speak (a language)" as well as an intransitive "speak [use voice]".
 We've never seen it take anything other than a language as its object;
 any time its used as a verb of saying, the person addressed has been
 identified with {-vaD}. >>

We have also seen that {jatlh} may take sentences as objects.  That which is
spoken becomes the object of {jatlh}.

peHruS


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