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Re: That's 'aD



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>Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 21:47:58 -0700 (PDT)
>From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
>
>On Sun, 24 Aug 1997 20:34:54 -0700 (PDT)  "Mark E. Shoulson" 
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> (b) {yu'} is ask question(s) of a person, interrogate.  The
>> questions probably would be unstated, the object is the person asked.  
>
>I also suspect that to fully {yu'} someone, you need pain sticks 
>and a good mind sifter... I definitely sense a greater degree of 
>coercion in {yu'} than {tlhob}.

Actually, this I disagree with.  That's sort of what I meant by my
definition of {yu'}.  To me, {yu'} is the act of asking someone [for
information].  That's what the "interrogate" is there for, to give us that
meaning.  I don't think the coercion is necessarily implied; I would not be
at all averse to saying something like {vuDwIj DaSov DaneHchugh, HIyu'}.  I
think this is also part of my drive to destigmatize words like "ra'", which
we in English tend to avoid because there's something unpleasant about the
idea of being "commanded", when in fact we do it to each other all the
time.

~mark

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