<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div><br></div><div><br>On Jun 8, 2018, at 20:09, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/8/2018 8:43 PM, Daniel Dadap
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<pre wrap="">What’s the correct way to say “we share a thing with each other”? The direct object of {bon} is supposed to be the thing being shared, so neither {Doch mabon'egh} nor {Doch mabonchuq} seem right (and changing the prefix to {wI-} just seems to make things worse). {maHvaD Doch wIbon} seems awkward, but I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t be that.
The actual thing I want to express is “we share the world with each other”, and within this context, I think {HochvaD qo' wIbon} works fine and avoids the awkwardness I perceived with {maHvaD X wI-Y}. It just made me curious as to how this would be expressed more generally.</pre>
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<p>The correct use of <b>bon</b> is:</p>
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<p><b>B-vaD C bon A</b><br>
<i>A shares C with B.</i></p>
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<p>I see two possibilities. First, just follow the formula: <b>maHvaD
qo' wIbon.</b> The two-way nature of the transaction doesn't
come through with this, though.<br>
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</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yeah, the formula is where I started, and I couldn’t put my finger on why I thought {maHvaD qo' wIbon} was awkward, but I think you’re right that it doesn’t communicate reciprocity, which is probably why I was grasping at straws with -chuq and -'egh. Do you see any problem with {HochvaD qo' wIbontaH} as I’ve used it in the reconstructed song? (Or with anything else in the song, for that matter?)</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><p>Second, expand it to <b>SoHvaD qo' vIbon 'ej jIHvaD Dabon.</b>
Repeat the <b>qo'</b> in the right place if you need poetic
symmetry or meter.</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks; that’s a good suggestion if I want to communicate reciprocity in a construct like that in the future.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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SuStel
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