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

[mayql qunenoS]

pay' paw lagh. ropchoH!
the ensign arrived suddenly. he is sick!

'ej ngugh So'Ha'pu' cha' romuluSngan may'Dujmey !

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 8:20 AM, John R. Harness <cartweel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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!
>
>
> --
>
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> 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
>> >
>> >
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