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    <div class="gmail-m_889939139534400206moz-cite-prefix">On 5/7/2019 5:21 PM, nIqolay Q wrote:<br>
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            <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 7, 2019 at
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                <p>So boQwI' has tags that mean "transitive because I
                  say so" and "transitive in canon"? wejpuH.</p>
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            <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The tag is written out as "This verb
              can probably take a direct object." I assume that in cases
              where canon doesn't confirm one way or another, De'vID
              relies on the transitivity of the English gloss.</div>
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    <p>None of <i>joke, make a joke,</i> or <i>tell a joke</i> seem
      transitive to me.<br></p></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">I'd accept "joke" as transitive with "that" as the direct object: "He joked that the captain looked like a targ." That's the same way I'd expect a transitive usage of <b>qID</b> to work: <b>targh rur HoD 'e' qID.</b><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">(Apparently there are some archaic transitive usages of "joke" in the sense of "to kid" or "to play a joke on", but I don't think the Klingon works with that meaning.)<br></div></div></div>