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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/1/2016 11:26 PM, Alan Anderson
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<pre wrap="">On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 8:47 AM, Aurélie Demonchaux
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:demonchaux.aurelie@gmail.com"><demonchaux.aurelie@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">But since in this example the person being called is “me”, and "Quvar" is
only what I'm called, then instead of using < jIHvaD Quvar ponglu’ > can we
also say:
< Quvar vIponglu’ > - “I am called Quvar”?
Kind of like the “prefix trick” I read about elsewhere on the Klingonwiki?
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<pre wrap="">That works fine, though some people consider it extremely informal
usage. It is *precisely* the prefix trick, with the verb prefix
indicating what we'd call in English an indirect object instead of the
direct object.</pre>
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<p>Except the prefix trick only works for first- and second-person
indirect objects, so <b>*Quvar vIponglu'</b> is simply
ungrammatical.<br>
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