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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Hoghvam qaSpu' 2012-01-24

De'vID jonpIn ([email protected]) 

<p><br>
loghaD:<br>
&gt;&gt; Somehow I&#39;d gotten into my head that I&#39;d seen {&lt;number&gt; DIl} and been frustrated by it, but I&#39;ve now gone through the box, the board and every card of the game, and I can&#39;t find anything like it.<br>

&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; Most likely, I got confused due to the existence of the word qav&#39;ap, meaning &quot;rent&quot; (noun), and phrases such as {ghajwI&#39;vaD qav&#39;ap le&#39; yIDIl.} (Pay the special rent to the owner. [Special in the sense that it&#39;s twice the normal rent.])</p>

<p>Qov:<br>
&gt; I would think that if you could pay {qav&#39;ap le&#39;} you could pay {cha&#39;maH DarSeq}.</p>
<p>But is {qav&#39;ap} something that you &quot;pay (for)&quot;, or something that you &quot;pay (out)&quot;?   In English, we don&#39;t distinguish between the two, nor do we usually distinguish between &quot;amount owed&quot; and &quot;amount paid out&quot;.   For example, when we &quot;pay the rent&quot;, we &quot;pay (for) the rent owed&quot; and we &quot;pay (out) the rent money&quot;.  While {DIl} can be used for the former, it&#39;s not clear that {DIl} can be used for the latter.</p>

<p>--<br>
De&#39;vID</p>

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