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A fun application of the "prefix trick"

Terrence Donnelly ([email protected])

• From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
• Subject: A fun application of the "prefix trick"
• Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:33:02 -0700 (PDT)
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In my lyrics to {lurDech}, I wanted to translate the phrase "Mother teaches me to manage the house".  The verb {ghojmoH} immediately suggested itself, but how to use it, given that we never reached concensus on what it's direct object would be: the subject(lesson) or the person taught the subject, or what role the person taught would take on if it wasn't the object?  So, I settled on {juH vIvu'meH mughojmoH SoS}.

I thought I was pretty clever ;)

-- ter'eS

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