tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Nov 07 07:21:23 1999
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prefix trick = bad idea
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: prefix trick = bad idea
- Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 10:21:10 EST
In a message dated 11/7/1999 4:00:52 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
> tIqwIj Sa'angnIS "I must show you [plural] my heart"
> (tIqwIj "my heart," Sa'angnIS "I must show you [plural] it")
>
>
this trick leaves the real direct object hanging by itself with no link to
the verb in the form of a prefix. indirect objects with no direct object can
be handled this way with no loss of clarity, but even so, it looks to me like
a major confusion in an area where there is already a lot of confusion.
elegant simplicity has become tangled mess.
lay'tel SIvten