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Re: Using object prefixes with "intransitive" verbs

...Paul ([email protected])

• From: "...Paul" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Using object prefixes with "intransitive" verbs
• Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:56:42 -0800 (PST)
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On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, David Trimboli wrote:
> You're right, but say rather that the Klingon meaning includes the English
> preposition.  There's nothing special about the word /loS/ from a Klingon
> point of view.  Where in Klingon you /loS/ a thing, in English you "wait
> FOR" a thing.  English is the language with prepositions.

An example in English of a transitive form of "wait for" might be "expect"

"I'm waiting for you"
"I'm expecting you"

/loS/ perhaps might be better thought of as "expect, wait (for)"

...Paul

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