[86701] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Ditransitive reflexives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terrence Donnelly)
Tue Oct 27 15:37:08 2009
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:34:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Terrence Donnelly <terrence.donnelly@sbcglobal.net>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <4AE73DCD.4040800@trimboli.name>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
--- On Tue, 10/27/09, David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name> wrote:
>
> {tam} means "exchange, substitute," so {yuch lutampu'}
> probably means
> "they substituted chocolate (for something else)."
>
> Without reflexive pronouns, I don't see any way to express
> this short of
> completely recasting it. Knowing the context would be
> necessary for
> this. For example, {muSHa'chuqmo' be' loD je, bangDajvaD
> yuch nobpu'
> Hoch qoch.}
>
I would probably use parallel verb phrases: {be'vaD yuch nob loD 'ej loDvaD yuch nob be'}. We know that Klingon doesn't mind this sort of repetition.
-- ter'eS
