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'.

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