On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 5:34 PM SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:
On 5/7/2019 5:21 PM, nIqolay Q wrote:
On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 5:11 PM SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:
So boQwI' has tags that mean "transitive because I say so" and "transitive in canon"? wejpuH.
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.
None of *joke, make a joke,* or *tell a joke* seem transitive to me.
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 *qID* to work: *targh rur HoD 'e' qID.* (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.)