tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Mar 15 15:27:58 2005
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Re: {Hum} "be sticky"
Voragh:
> >An old question: How is {lel} "get out, take out" different from {teq}
> >"remove"? Unfortunately, we have canon for neither.
QeS lagh:
>IMHO, {lel} describes a subset or a special case of {teq}. I'd see the
>object of {lel} as being physically inside something else (so, inside a box,
>a packet, a room) whereas {teq} could describe something on something else,
>but not necessarily inside (so, on a wall, the floor, etc).
Perhaps, but this is based purely on your own idiomatic sense. There's no
Klingon evidence whatsoever.
>{ngaSwI'vo' Soj yIlel} "take the food out of the container!"
No argument.
>{ngaSwI'vo' Soj yIteq} "take the food off/out of/away from the container!"
or "Remove the food from the container." (Say, an instruction on a
microwaveable food package!)
{teq} is not glossed "take off, take out of, take away" - only "remove".
Which makes it the verb of choice - barring any other data - for
translating things like:
qama' yIteq!
Remove the prisoner!
One could assume that there's an elided or understood place stamp:
(pa'vo') qama' yIteq!
Remove the prisoner (from this room)!
(jIHvo') qama' yIteq!
Remove the prisoner (from my presence)!
But then, that based purely on my own idiomatic sense. <g>
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons