[Tlhingan-hol] KLBC: Beginner's One-Sentence Story Game

[mayql qunenoS]

Thank you all very much for explaining all this ! So long I've been
living with the misconception that -vaD meant, that someone must
benefit from an action ; luckily now, I understand.

Anyway ! lets resume our story.

jatlh be': "qavaqbe' jIH! tej jIH!"
the woman said : I don't mock you ! I'm a scientist !

maj ! jang HoD.. DaH tej wIlo'nIS ; QuQmey'Daq tIjaH 'ej tItI' !

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 5:01 AM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:
> On 2/19/2016 9:50 PM, qov at kli.org wrote:
>>>
>>> -vaD does mean "for the benefit of." But with verbs of speaking it
>>> is simply used to mark the one being talked to. (I.e., it marks the
>>> indirect object.)
>>
>>
>> Also, "the beneficiary" of an action does not necessarily benefit
>> from that action. It just affects them in a way other than it affects
>> the direct object.
>
>
> Yup. As TKD says, {-vaD} indicates "the person or thing for whom or for
> which the activity occurs." "Activity," of course, can also be read as
> "state" or "quality," since those kinds of verbs can also work with {-vaD}.
>
> If I say something TO someone, that someone is the person for whom the
> activity occurs. Hence {-vaD}.
>
> --
> SuStel
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>
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