tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Nov 29 19:17:53 1998
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Re: opera: freeze
ja'pu' muHwI':
>My question:
>taDchoH - freeze? (-> change to be frozen)
ja' SuStel:
>Maybe. {taD} is, as you know, "be frozen," so {taDchoH} means "become
>frozen."
That sure sounds like "change to be frozen" to me.
>"Freeze" can be one of two things: transitive or intransitive. "The water
>freezes" uses an intransitive "freeze," while "The ray gun freezes the
>building" uses a transitive "freeze."
"Change to be frozen" is obviously the intransitive usage.
>So, you need to tell us what you're saying.
He *did* tell us what he's saying. And it was exactly correct.
[Of course, {taD} has an idiomatic usage: When used to say "Don't move!"
{yItaD} or {petaD} can be translated literally as "Freeze!" without using
any suffixes at all.]
-- ghunchu'wI'