tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 23 19:05:10 2012
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] nuq bop bom: 'ay' wa'vatlh cha'maH Hut: <no' chavmey>
On Jan 23, 2012, at 9:12 PM, Robyn Stewart <[email protected]> wrote:
>> {ja'} is probably the wrong verb to use here. Are there any examples
>> of its use with anything other than a person as its object? I think
>> {jatlh} would work better, as its object (if any) is usually the thing
>> being spoken (the "speech event").
>
> I connect its gloss "tell" with stories and "report" with information as an object.
Whereas I interpret "tell" as being directed at a person ("I told you", "tell yourself"), and "report" is included to accommodate the no-object usage.
Cue a canon search of {ja'}…
-- ghunchu'wI'
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