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Re: Object-verb relationship Questions

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Oct 15 15:54:18 1993

Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.east.sun.com>
From: Mark Reed <Mark.Reed@cad.gatech.edu>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.east.sun.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 15:53:03 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <9310150446.AA23432@localhost> from "Paul J. Clegg" at Oct 15, 93 
    00:46:52 am


The issue of transitivity is not discussed in TKD, but it seems clear that
several verbs that require a preposition in English are capable of taking an
object in tlhIngan Hol.  (This is also the case with several non-English Terran
languages).  I would translate "I disagree with you" as "qaQoch".  
'ach chaq muQoch latlhpu'. :)

-marqoS


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