Dear Yong Peng,

op 08-07-2003 18:22 schreef Ong Yong Peng op ypong001@...:

> After looking up further on ta.m and ya.m, I learnt that both ta.m
> and ya.m can be in either nominative or accusative case, so I wonder
> if the sentence can be reconstructed literally as:
>
> Thus it was said what? It was said on account of this.

N: I do not think that is a question, that would be kim. We have to take
ya.m as a relative pronoun: Thus, what (that which) was said....
Nina.