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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/15/2019 11:50 AM, Will Martin
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:1FCF38BB-E848-45F3-ADDA-2DF61201301E@mac.com">I remember
there being a time that Okrand explained that the difference
between {jatlh} and {ja’} was that the direct object of {jatlh}
was the language or the text being spoken, while the object of
{ja’} was the person being addressed.</blockquote>
<p>I do not believe he has ever outright stated what the object of <b>ja'</b>
should be. On the other hand, you yourself once interviewed him (<a
href="http://klingonska.org/canon/1998-12-holqed-07-4.txt">http://klingonska.org/canon/1998-12-holqed-07-4.txt</a>)
and stated that the typical object of <b>ja'</b> would be the
person addressed, and he never responded to that. He has, however,
talked about what the object of <b>jatlh</b> should be (<a
href="http://klingonska.org/canon/1997-06-29a-news.txt">http://klingonska.org/canon/1997-06-29a-news.txt</a>),
and it's the language being spoken or a word referring to the
speech (like <b>SoQ</b><i> speech, lecture, address</i>). It's
not the actual words; those are quoted as per TKD's section on
sentences as objects. The indirect object of <b>jatlh,</b> he
also said, is the listener.</p>
<p>In canon, Okrand has only ever used a word like <b>lut</b> as
the object of <b>ja'.</b> He has never explicitly used a person
as its object. He's used prefixes that indicate a person being
reported to, but there's no way to distinguish whether it's an
elided direct object or a reference to in indirect object using
the prefix trick.<br>
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