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.

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