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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] nuq bop bom: 'ay' wa'vatlh cha'maH Hut:

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven Litaer)
Tue Jan 24 09:38:08 2012

Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:37:31 +0100
From: Lieven Litaer <lieven.litaer@web.de>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
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> WILL MARTIN: "And a typical direct object of {ja'} would be the person addressed and a typical object of the verb {jatlh} would be the thing you say."
> MARC OKRAND: "The speech event."   [MO interviewed, HQ 12/1998]

> nuja' tlhIngan wIch ja'wI'pu'
> According to Klingon legend... S8

This is the only example that has a noun as the object of the verb:
   {wIch ja'wI'pu'} "legend tellers/reporters"

I conclude that I might be able to say
   {lut vIja'}
   "I tell a story."

Lieven.





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