[Tlhingan-hol] Piraha

SuStel sustel at trimboli.name
Mon Nov 2 14:25:51 PST 2015


> I think consensus is sort of kinda pushing for it being okay to use
> normal word order with {-jaj}, with a vague, wittering explanation about
> the difference between ancient, oft-repeated blessings vs. modern
> expressions of wishfulness, but I’m not sure we ever got The Word from
> The Man on this one.

KGT tells us that the weird sentence order with {-jaj} only happens in 
toasts. For anything not a toast, normal sentence order is used.

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