On 10/1/2016 11:26 PM, Alan Anderson wrote:
On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 8:47 AM, Aurélie Demonchaux <demonchaux.aurelie@gmail.com> wrote:
But since in this example the person being called is “me”, and "Quvar" is only what I'm called, then instead of using < jIHvaD Quvar ponglu’ > can we also say:
< Quvar vIponglu’ > - “I am called Quvar”?
Kind of like the “prefix trick” I read about elsewhere on the Klingonwiki? That works fine, though some people consider it extremely informal usage. It is *precisely* the prefix trick, with the verb prefix indicating what we'd call in English an indirect object instead of the direct object.
Except the prefix trick only works for first- and second-person indirect objects, so **Quvar vIponglu'* is simply ungrammatical. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name