<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">The canon from KGT:<br><br><div> {bej} ("be sure, definite, positive, certain")</div><div><br></div><div> The verb {bej} literally means "watch," though its slang usage is probably influenced by the verb suffix {-bej} ("certainly, undoubtedly"; compare {voq,} "trust," and {voqbej,} "certainly trust"). It is used in such forms as {jIbej} ("I am positive [about something I just said]"---literally, "I watch" [{jI-,} "I"]) or {bIbej'a'?} ("Are you sure?"---literally, "Do you watch?" [{bI-,} "you"; {-'a',} interrogative). Unlike the verb {na'} ("be salty"), which has an identical slang meaning (see below), the verb {bej} may be used when there is an object: {HIvrup 'e' vIbej} ("I am positive they're ready to attack"; literally, "I watch that they're ready to attack"; {HIv,} "[they] attack"; {-rup,} "ready"; {'e',} "that"; {vI-,} "I [do something to] it"). The notions expressed by {bej} can be conveyed without slang with a word such as {Honbe'} ("not doubt") or by making use of the verb suffix {-bej,} as in {HIvrupbej} ("They're certainly ready to attack").<br><br>qurgh</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 1:18 PM Daniel Dadap <<a href="mailto:daniel@dadap.net">daniel@dadap.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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> On Mar 12, 2019, at 11:41, mayqel qunen'oS <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" target="_blank">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I can't express it adequately in english.<br>
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> When we say a fact is certain, we mean that the fact is certain; it is actual, it can't be disputed.<br>
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> When we say jIbej, does it mean "I am certain", as in "I'm sure", or would it mean "I'm actual, undisputed, etc ?"<br>
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Ah, I think I understand your question now. It might help to re-ask it as something like “is the subject of {bej} a {ghot} who has no doubt, or a {ngoD} which can’t be disputed?<br>
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To which I don’t know the answer, but my intuition is that it’s a person.<br>
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