[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: jaw

[David Trimboli]

On 11/3/2011 10:52 AM, Noah Bogart wrote:
>> Note that "verbs of speech" doesn't mean it can be used with the
>> special sentence-as-object construction for direct quotation. Only
>> {ja'} and {jatlh} can do that, so far as we know. Okrand listed
>> these once somewhere.
>
> What do you mean?
>
> He said, "Give it to me." = jIH HInob mujatlh He said, "Give it to
> me." = #jIH HInob mujang#
>
> Like that?

Right. The first is valid; the second is not. I think there was a HolQeD 
article that explained this.

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