[tlhIngan Hol] Clarification on SIch

SuStel sustel at trimboli.name
Wed Apr 10 09:33:03 PDT 2019


On 4/10/2019 11:03 AM, Lieven L. Litaer wrote:
>> The continuous and progressive aspects are used when a sentence is meant
>> to express continuousness or progressiveness. *paq vISIch: *I stretch my
>> hand to the book.
> [...]
>> *SIch* seems to take the thing reached for as its object,
>
> Did I miss anything in the discussion? I understood that {SIch} does NOT
> mean "reach for", it's "reach" in the sense of "my arm is long enough to
> touch something, so I can reach it" and not "I try to grab something".

I wasn't translating it. If you *SIch* something, you reach for it /and 
/get it. I didn't say *SIch* means /reach for;/ I said the thing you 
reach for is the object of *SIch.*

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SuStel
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