tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 14 12:50:39 1996
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result of verb?
- From: [email protected] (JEFF ZEITLIN)
- Subject: result of verb?
- Date: Wed, 14 Aug 96 15:47:00 -0500
- Organization: Execnet Information System - 914-667-4567 - 206.181.98.136
As a sort of exercise, I'm attempting to translate some random
sections of random documents, and I have run into a problem
_again_. Quite likely it's due to the fact that matlh has not
given us a _complete_ tlhIngan Hol grammar and vocabulary, but
it's still annoying.
What I need is some way of indicating the product/result of a
verb - for example "evaluate (v)" -> "evaluation (n)". Using
the -wI' suffix is clearly not correct; that would give me
"evaluator (n)".
The context is approximately "I have examined the information
you have provided; my evaluation is that...". I had
considered other words, but the best match that I could find
was "opinion", which didn't feel right, as there is less of an
implication that the information affected the
opinion/evaluation. (The actual context is an attempt to
translate the title and first few paragraphs of the first
chapter of Sun Tzu; the title in question is "Estimates" in
the sense of evaluations.)
The same construction could also be useful in the context of
administrative forms - for example, the last box on a
personnel review form in the civil service (usually titled
something like "Evaluation").
Advice, please?
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Jeff Zeitlin [email protected]
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