[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: 'epIl naHmey

[David Trimboli]

On 2/4/2012 2:53 PM, Felix Malmenbeck wrote:
>
>> That's troublesome too. {-chuq} means that "each other" is the
>> implied object. We don't have any kind of prefix trick for {yI-} or
>> for {-chuq}, so we mustn't assume that the verb can take an object
>> other than the implied "each other."
>
> I'd personally accept HIvje'mey penobchuq (not yInobchuq) as "give
> one another cups", but it is indeed not explicitly supported by
> canon.

Yes, I wouldn't be terribly put out if we learned that it is an 
extension of the prefix trick, or another kind of "implied ditransitive" 
verb property.

On the other hand, I cringe sometimes because it's easy to get rules 
that mimic English usage (as back-fits to goofs), but much harder to get 
rules that say "it DOESN'T work the way an English speaker might expect."

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