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Re: Using object prefixes with "intransitive" verbs

David Trimboli ([email protected])

• From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Using object prefixes with "intransitive" verbs
• Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 10:58:38 -0500
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From: "QeS lagh" <[email protected]>

> ja' SuStel:
>
> >/pIH/ is used in Conversational Klingon:
>
> >pIpIH
> >We've been expecting you.
>
> 'e' vISovbe'pu'.
>
> So maybe the semantic domains of {pIH} and {loS} do overlap somewhat:
> {pIpIH} would then be pretty much the same as {pIloS}. Does this sound
> right?


I would guess that the Klingon says /pIpIH/ instead of /pIloS/ because no
one was actually waiting for anything.  "Wait" implies inactivity prior to
some event; "expect" implies anticipation, but not inactivity.  The Klingon
desk clerk wasn't "waiting for" the tourist, twiddling his thumbs, but he
was "expecting" him.

SuStel
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