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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/8/2021 9:06 AM, Will Martin wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I just want to point out that the English verb “marry” is used in a way that everything here said about {tlhogh} perhaps excludes. A priest marries a couple.
I have officiated the weddings of two of my step-children. In my state, any citizen can request a one-event license to officiate a wedding for a specific couple, hence my personal familiarity with the verb. My neighbor similarly officiated my marriage to my wife.
So, in this sense, I didn’t marry my wife. My wife and I were married by my neighbor. </pre>
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<p>In English, <i>marry</i> is used in any of these ways: your
neighbor married you and your wife*; you married your wife; you
and your wife married. All of these are correct usages.</p>
<p>This is undoubtedly why Okrand gave us examples of the correct
usage of <b>tlhogh:</b> to avoid confusing all the English senses
of the word. <b>be'nallI' Datlhoghpu'</b><i> You married your
wife;</i> <b>Sutlhoghchuqpu' SoH be'nallI' je</b><i> You and
your wife married;</i> but not <b>SoH be'nallI' je lItlhoghpu'
jIllI'.</b> Instead it must be <b>SoH be'nallI' je
lItlhoghmoHpu' jIllI'</b><i> Your neighbor married you and your
wife.</i><br>
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<p>* She who is your wife <i>now,</i> that is. I won't correct this
each time.<br>
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