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Re: KLBC tlhIngan yot - 'ay' cha'DIch (was Re: KLBC naDev



-----Original Message-----
From: Qov <[email protected]>
To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
Date: Sunday, November 16, 1997 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: KLBC tlhIngan yot - 'ay' cha'DIch (was Re: KLBC naDev


>}<tlhaQ je tlhInganpu'vetlh!> jatlh'egh.
>}<tlhaQ je tlhInganpu'vetlh!> ghaHvaD jatlh
>}"Those Klingons are funny too!", he says to himself.
>}  -- I'm not certain which one of these I should use.
>
>ghaHvaD jatlh would be "said to him"
>I've come to accept {jatlh'egh} for talking to oneself, although I used to
>disagree.

{jatlh'egh} is highly questionable, as a person is not the object of
{jatlh}, but there is no problem at all with using {ja''egh} "tell oneself."

<tlhaQ je tlhInganpu'vetlh!> ja''egh.

SuStel
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