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PostPosted: Mon 02 Jul 2012, 09:19 
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OP: That could be as much a question of telicity as of prepositions. I haven't entirely figured out the system of prepositions in I Ichi yet, and it also takes place too early in human time to have a word for shoot. There may be a similar word for shooting arrows whenever I decide to make it.

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PostPosted: Wed 04 Jul 2012, 16:11 
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I shot you:
Sia tvo lavum.
/sjæ tʋɔ lævʊɴ/
2sg.iness thing.acc [stab/penetrate/enter]-PST.1sg.

I shot at you:
Sio tvo lavum.
/sjɔ tʋɔ lævʊɴ/
2sg.till thing.acc [stab/penetrate/enter]-PST.1sg.

No words for shoot (closest would be enter/stab from afar, which would be redundant in this context)
Can also be interpreted as 'I entered/fed (something) in/to you' in a sexual(masculine)/caring(feminine) sort of way.

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PostPosted: Thu 05 Jul 2012, 16:24 
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Aseca wrote:
No words for shoot (closest would be enter/stab from afar, which would be redundant in this context)
Can also be interpreted as 'I entered/fed (something) in/to you' in a sexual(masculine)/caring(feminine) sort of way.
So the phrases "I shot you" and "I had intercourse with you" are... pretty much interchangeable?
There is room for a lot of bad jokes with this. And some hilarious misunderstandings in action movies.

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Edit: Substituted a string instrument for a French interjection.


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