tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jun 15 22:43:19 1997
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Re: KLBC: Uselessness & Aiming
- From: "Donald E. Vick" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Uselessness & Aiming
- Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 22:26:12 -0700 (PDT)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "David Trimboli" at Jun 15, 97 08:33:57 am
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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