[tlhIngan Hol] Hech

[SuStel]

On 9/29/2017 1:12 PM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
> The verb {Hech} is given as "intend, mean to".
>
> However I wonder.. does it always have to have the meaning "mean to" ?
>
> For example, can we say:
>
> {{juH} vIHechbe'; {jul} vIHech}
> I didn't mean {juH}, I meant {jul}

Everyone uses it that way, but I'm not so sure. I think the object of 
*Hech* is a thing you intended to happen or to do, not a thing you 
intended to say or write. Saying and writing are things you do, but they 
require their own sentences; the actual content is not something you do.

We know that *'e' Hech* is perfectly legal. *Hem tlhIngan Segh 'ej 
maHemtaH 'e' wIHech*/Klingons are a proud race, and we intend to go on 
being proud./ (TKW) There is one other *'e' Hech* example in TKW, and no 
other examples of *Hech* elsewhere at all.

I would expect saying or doing to be /*juH*/*vIghItlh 'e' vIHechbe'; 
/juH/ vIghItlh 'e' vIHech.* I'm on the fence whether saying would 
require a sentence-as-object-as-object: /*juH*/*jIjatlh 'e' vIHechbe'; 
/jul/ jIjatlh 'e' vIHech* or whether a single word doesn't need to be 
treated as a quotation because it's not exactly a sentence anyway.

-- 
SuStel
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