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

[John R. Harness]

maj ! jang HoD.. DaH tej wIlo'nIS ; QuQmey'Daq tIjaH 'ej tItI' !
"Good!" answered the Captain. "Now, We need to use scientists! Go into the
engines and fix them!"

pay' paw lagh. ropchoH!


--

Socialist Alternative <http://www.socialistalternative.org/>
Klingon Language Institute <http://www.kli.org/>

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 4:31 AM, mayql qunenoS <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> > http://trimboli.name
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Tlhingan-hol mailing list
> > Tlhingan-hol at kli.org
> > http://mail.kli.org/mailman/listinfo/tlhingan-hol
>
> _______________________________________________
> Tlhingan-hol mailing list
> Tlhingan-hol at kli.org
> http://mail.kli.org/mailman/listinfo/tlhingan-hol
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kli.org/pipermail/tlhingan-hol/attachments/20160222/97daefd6/attachment.html>