tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Sep 24 16:26:54 2002
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RE: Canon: choH, tagh -- KLBG
What does transitive and non transitive mean?
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#Subject: Re: Canon: choH, tagh
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#> >Is there any canon or concensus regarding the transitivity
#of {choH}
#> >and {tagh}?
#>
#> II (verb) "begin a process, initiate".
#>
#> Qu' DataghDI' 'aqtu' mellota' je yIqaw
#> When you begin a mission, remember Aktuh and Mellota;
#>
#> tagh mu'qaD veS
#> Curse-warfare has begun.
#>
#> choH (verb) "alter, change":
#> HIvHe yIchoHmoH! Alter the attack course
#> HoS choHwI' n. transtator (="thing which does change energy")
#> woj choHwI' n. reactor (="thing which does change radiation")
#>
#> I think it's very obvious that both are transitive verbs.
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#oh?
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#> HIvHe yIchoHmoH! Alter the attack course
#This is not transitive.
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#> tagh mu'qaD veS Curse-warfare has begun.
#This is not transitive.
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#I don't remember hearing anything about tagh, but I have a
#memory of MO telling
#us that choH works both transitively and intransitively. I
#don't remember the
#source, it might have been on the news group. I was working
#on ghIlghameS at
#the time and wanted to use that word but couldn't rememeber
#which way it worked
#and I remember we concluded it worked both ways. If MO didn't
#tell us, then
#maybe we drew this conclusion from the canon cited above.
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#With the words that work both ways, AFAIK there are no rules
#telling when to
#use it which way.
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#DloraH, BG
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