<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 at 15:01, Lieven L. Litaer <<a href="mailto:levinius@gmx.de">levinius@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The prince was asking for a sheep. The used word "sheep" (french <br>
"mouton") does not imply any gender. When the pilot drew one with horns, <br>
</blockquote></div><div><br></div>I was a bit surprised to see {DIj} used with the object being a thing whose representation was to be drawn on paper. <div><br></div><div>When I heard {DI'raq yIDIj}, I thought the prince was asking the pilot to apply paint to a sheep. Actually, wouldn't the object of {DIj} be a pigment stick, i.e., the command ought to have been something like {DI'raq DachenmoHmeH rItlh naQ yIDIj}? That can probably be shortened to {DI'raq yIchenmoH! yIDIj!} and finally just {DI'raq yIDIj!} so it's probably fine.</div><div><br></div><div>Did Marc Okrand say anything about the (usual) object of {DIj}?<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div></div>