tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 19 09:05:52 1995
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Re: works for me
>Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 11:53:25 -0400
>Originator: [email protected]
>From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
>A middle-road alternative would be {Qap 'e' vIHar}. Lately,
>I've been seeing a lot of {'e' vIQub}s and I tend to prefer
>{Har} because {Qub} strikes me as a word better left
>intransitive most of the time. The way we use "think" in
>English is perhaps a somewhat idiomatic, mindless replacement
>for the word "believe".
Indeed. Or equally often, for "opine", a word which gets very short shrift
in English. I kind of like the fact that it's not at all uncommon in much
of the Esperanto I've seen.
>charghwI'
~mark