tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Sep 10 11:17:22 1997
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Re: Return to school
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>Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 16:16:18 -0700 (PDT)
>From: [email protected]
>
>I suggest for "I went back to school yesterday" {wa'Hu' DuSaQDaq jIghojqa'}.
> This translates literally as "I started studying again at school yesterday."
>
>Qov stated that all verbs other than {neH} require a sentence-as-object
>construction. This is not accurate. Verbs of speaking act as does {neH}, in
>directly conjoined phrases. All other verbs take the sentence-as-obejct
>construction.
Also not *quite*. Verbs of speaking use conjoined phrases, yes, IN EITHER
ORDER, and what's more the thing said is not considered the object (the
verb-prefix is no-object or reflects the indirect object, the person
addressed). With {neH} there is no such freedom of order, and the phrase
reflecting what's wanted IS the object (is there canon for this, or am I
basing this on lack of canon to the contrary? I know it's what we've been
doing all along). So, "I said, 'I'm tired'" would be {<jIDoy'> jIjatlh} OR
{jIjatlh <jIDoy'>}, while "I want to be tired" would be {jIDoy' vIneH}.
~mark
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