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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Story: ghuv = The Recruit - 29

De'vID ([email protected])



On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 5:24 AM, Robyn Stewart <[email protected]> wrote:
> beH lutlhapmeH ghobtaHvIS loDpu', cha'logh laQ. "While the men battled over
> [lit: battled in order to take] the rifle, it fired twice." (What is the
> subject of laQ? If it is not the weapon then this should be lulaQ, or rather
> I prefer laQlu', because I don't know if they fired it, one of them fired
> it.

We know the subject of {laQ} is the person doing the firing, and its
object is the device which is fired, from the command {chuyDaH yIlaQ}
given by Gowron in KCD.

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De'vID

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