<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 February 2018 at 12:35, David Holt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kenjutsuka@live.com" target="_blank">kenjutsuka@live.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Is he saying {patlh} can also mean "compare" or {patlhmoH} can mean "compare"? The statement about "compare" comes right after {patlhmoH}, but it seems odd syntactically and it seems odd to say "of course, the object of the verb is plural."<br>
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However, I could easily see {patlh} with a plural subject to mean, "they compare". Could you clarify?<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>It seems pretty clear that he's saying {patlhmoH} means "compare" with the things to be compared listed as the object.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">De'vID</div>
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