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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/30/2017 6:41 PM, De'vID wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 28 September 2017 at 19:38, SuStel <span
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wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail-m_5381979635292971946moz-cite-prefix">Whatever
the verb is, we've got a few of them in Klingon.<br>
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<p><b>tagh</b></p>
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<p><b>taghbej mu'qaDveS<br>
</b><i>Curse warfare has definitely begun. </i>(CK)</p>
<b>Qu' DataghDI' 'aqtu' mellota' je tIqaw</b><i><br>
When you begin a mission, remember Aktuh and Melota. </i>(TKW)</blockquote>
<p><b>mev</b></p>
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<p><b>not mev peghmey<br>
</b><i>Secrets never cease. </i>(PK)</p>
<p><b>bIjatlh 'e' yImev<br>
</b><i>Shut up!</i> (PK)</p>
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<p><b>meQ</b></p>
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<p><b>Ha'DIbaHmey meQ Sop 'e' tIv tera'nganpu'<br>
</b><i>Terrans enjoy eating burnt animals.</i> (CK, but
notice the missing <b>lu-</b> on <b>tIv</b>)</p>
<p><b>to'waQ meQ vutwI'<br>
</b><i>The cook burns the tendon.</i> (KGT)</p>
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<p>And you've noticed <b>pegh.</b> There may be others I
can't remember right now. There are also a lot of verbs
whose transitivity we don't know, like <b>DIng</b> <i>spin
</i>and <b>chagh</b><i> drop.</i></p>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Some other verbs of this type (where the
presence or absence of an object changes the role of the
subject) that I know of are:</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">{Don} v. be parallel, go parallel to</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">{ghom} v. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">meet,
encounter, assemble, rendezvous</span></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">{So'} v.
hide, cloak</span></div>
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<p>And it's no coincidence that the ones that do it in Klingon are
also the ones that do it in their English definitions...<br>
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