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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] {-Ha'} with {-Qo'}

Fiat Knox ([email protected])



<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-style: italic;">&gt; No, that's not right either. I suppose {vIHoHQo'be'} and {vIHoHbe'Qo'} both make sense. I don't know why I thought otherwise.</span><br><br>In imperatives, <span style="font-weight: bold;">-be'</span> cannot be used: you use <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Qo'</span> for "<span style="font-style: italic;">don't</span>!" instead. But <span style="font-weight: bold;">-Qo'</span> in a non-imperative carries the meaning of <span style="font-style: italic;">refusal</span>, so {<span style="font-weight: bold;">vIHoHQo'be'</span>} should carry the meaning <span>/</span><span style="font-style: italic;">I DO NOT refuse to kill him</span>/ and {<span style="font-weight: bold;">vIHoHbe'Qo'</span>} should carry the meaning /<span style="font-weight: bold;">I refuse to NOT kill him</span>/, if my TKD is
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