tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Oct 03 02:59:57 2004
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Re: just use it! (Re: jIb
Am Sun, 03 Oct 2004 14:16:11 +1000 hat QeS lagh <[email protected]>
geschrieben:
>> TKD demonstrates direct quotes with the word {qaja'}.
>
> Completely correct. Remember that in this case the syntactic "direct
> object" the prefix refers to is semantically a benefactive or dative
> object (what would usually be given in a fuller sentence as {X-vaD}), not
> a semantic direct object.
Maybe MO once again misused a verb? {qaja'} is a literal (!) translation of
"I told you".
This makes more sense to me than
{qajatlh} "I spoke you" or "I say you"
Quvar.
PS: jIlugh vIneHbe'. jIghel neH.