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Re: KBLC: ah-ha!

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: KBLC: ah-ha!
• Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 15:03:08 -0400 (EDT)

In einer eMail vom 22.10.97 09:59:26 CETDST, ghItlh Qov:

> Tell me what you think? I'd say: {nuq DaQub?  HIja'}  "What do you think?
>  Tell me."  Notice the imperative prefix {HI-} (command, you - me).  Yes
this
>  looks like the word "yes" but it isn't.
>  

I've been thinking about this a lot, but if you say {HIja'} (tell me)
wouldn't "me" be the thing being told?
{lut vIja'} I tell a story  [story I-it tell]
{lut qaja'} I tell you a story  [story I-you tell]
{qaja'} I tell you  [I-you tell]

eh... vISovbe' jIH

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