tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Feb 27 05:50:28 2004
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Re: Body paerts and verb prefixes
From: "Se'noj le'umaS" <[email protected]>
> When using verb prefixes, espesically imperatives, with the object of the
> verb being a body part, espescially the speaker's, is the body part
> considered part of the speaker?
> i.e.
> Which is correct: {{Sa'HutwIj HIchop}} pagh {{Sa'HutwIj yIchop}}?
>
> Personally, I prefer the former, because if you bite my arse, you are, in
> effect, biting me, though I can see a possibility for it to be considered
> ungrammatical.
You are not a body part. The second sentence is correct.
mu'aw' mInDu'wIj
My eyes sting. (Literally, "My eyes sting me.") (Conversational Klingon)
There are likely other examples.
SuStel
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