tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 04 10:36:14 1999
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Re: Attending a school
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Attending a school
- Date: 4 Aug 1999 17:36:12 -0000
I said:
>>But I have trouble believing
>>Klingons would do something so roundabout as stick the object of a
>>transitive verb in a type-5 noun phrase
ja' SuStel:
>On the other hand, one might have trouble believing that Klingons would talk
>about a general "participating." Instead, one might suppose that they
>always say HOW they are participating (much as Klingons don't simply say
>that they are afraid-when they say it at all-they say specifically what they
>are afraid to do).
>
>For instance, a Klingon might not simply talk about "participating" at a
>{qep'a'}. He might talk about "singing" at one, "dancing" at one, "talking"
>at one, and so on.
>
>jIchup neH. jIqapbe'.
Erm, then what would the verb be doing there at all? If a Klingon wouldn't
talk about "participating" but rather would say what in fact he/she did,
then such a Klingon would have no need for the verb "jeS" in the first
place, transitive, intransitive, ditransitive or orangey-greenish.
~mark