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Re: KLBC: Uselessness & Aiming



David Trimboli wrote:
> > mulI'be' De'                    This information is not useful to me.
> > mulI'Ha' De'                    This information is useless to me.
> 
> Well, the first thing to realize is that "me" is NOT the object of this 
> sentence.  The information is not doing anything to you.  It's being some 
> quality FOR YOU.  Let's forget about you for a moment and just concentrate on 
> what the information is doing.

     Now, if you used {QaH} instead of {lI'}, the prefix would be
appropriate.

wIvqu', law'wI'pu'vaD Holtej jIH
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