[Tlhingan-hol] roj

[qunnoQ HoD]

> Well, I'm not sure this is semantically correct (IANAL)

what is IANAL ?

On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Lieven <levinius at gmx.de> wrote:

> Am 08.11.2015 um 01:00 schrieb De'vID:
>
>> What is the difference between "make a joke" and "make a beverage"
>> that makes it unlikely that the first verb takes an object while it is
>> uncontroversial that the second one can?That's what I'm trying to
>> determine.
>>
>
> Well, I'm not sure this is semantically correct (IANAL), so maybe this is
> just a theory. Anyway, since my daughter is being raised bi-lingual with
> German and dutch, I noticed that there are two kinds of "make". Actually,
> these fit to your question:
>
> a) "make" can sometimes be replaced by do; this make is an action. For
> "make a joke" you can also say a verb "joking". "To joke" means to "tell a
> funny story", it's part of the definition.
>
> b) "make" can mean "construct, produce, assemble". When you "make lunch",
> then you prepare food, the result is the lunch. You cannot say "we lunch".
>
> This is indeed very confusing, since languages are not consistent with
> that. A german would do (make?) the mistake and say "I must make my
> homework", but in english it's "do your homework." In dutch and english you
> ask "what are you DOing?" - in German it's "was machst du" (what do you
> make).
>
> So: what do you do? I'm telling a joke. {jIqID}
> What do you make? I'm making some food. {Soj vIvut}
>
> That's somehow what Alan wrote in another message.
>
> That doesn't work always, but that's the reason why I see some words
> working with object and others not.
>
> -------
>
> At the end, we don't know for sure, and as long as one understands the
> intended meaning of a phrase I'll accept anything. We cannot omit each word
> which we do not understand properly.
>
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