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Re: Sa'HutwIj [HI/yI]chop

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: Sa'HutwIj [HI/yI]chop
• Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 07:18:32 EST

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In a message dated 2005-01-09 12:37:54 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:


> If you said /jIHvaD Sa'Hut yIchop/ like it appears you're
> implying, it would be "Bite my bottom for me" which is definitely not what
> I suspect is being communicated.
> 

But that is the normal way to say it in German:  Bite me the bottom.  (Your 
translation has an extra "my" in it.)  The possession is indicated by the 
dative (i.e. indirect) object instead of by a possessive pronoun.  

lay'tel SIvten

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