On 9/29/2017 1:23 PM, SuStel wrote:
On 9/29/2017 1:12 PM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
The verb {Hech} is given as "intend, mean to".
However I wonder.. does it always have to have the meaning "mean to" ?
For example, can we say:
{{juH} vIHechbe'; {jul} vIHech} I didn't mean {juH}, I meant {jul}
Everyone uses it that way, but I'm not so sure. I think the object of *Hech* is a thing you intended to happen or to do, not a thing you intended to say or write. Saying and writing are things you do, but they require their own sentences; the actual content is not something you do.
We know that *'e' Hech* is perfectly legal. *Hem tlhIngan Segh 'ej maHemtaH 'e' wIHech*/Klingons are a proud race, and we intend to go on being proud./ (TKW) There is one other *'e' Hech* example in TKW, and no other examples of *Hech* elsewhere at all.
I would expect saying or doing to be /*juH*/*vIghItlh 'e' vIHechbe'; /juH/ vIghItlh 'e' vIHech.* I'm on the fence whether saying would require a sentence-as-object-as-object: /*juH*/*jIjatlh 'e' vIHechbe'; /jul/ jIjatlh 'e' vIHech* or whether a single word doesn't need to be treated as a quotation because it's not exactly a sentence anyway.
I do think there are ways to use *Hech* that don't involve *'e'.* Here's an example: nablIj wIlajchugh qaS Qugh. nab vIHechbogh jIH wIlajchugh maQapchu'. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name