tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 13 11:38:08 1998
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Re: SoQHomwIj cha'DIch
According to David Trimboli:
>
> From: Qov <[email protected]>
>
> >Consider:
> >Dubpu''a' tlhIngan HolwIj
> >"Has my Klingon improved?"
>
> We've seen somewhere that {Dub} is transitive.
At least two times (including Skybox S26, but I'll let voragh
do what he does so well) Okrand used it transitively, but he
has never used it intransitively.
> tlhIngan HolwIj vIDubpu''a'?
> Have I improved my Klingon?
What? How did you improve your Klingon? Did you buy her a
weapon? Did you teach her to dance? Oh. You improved your
Klingon LANGUAGE. DaH jIyaj!
> The subject of {Dub} is the person doing the improving, and the object is
> the thing improved.
>
> SuStel
> Stardate 98362.6
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