tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Sep 04 09:26:29 1996
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Re: KLBC: Introduction Attempt
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>Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 07:53:14 -0700
>From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
>Mike Rowe {batlhro'} wrote:
>>De'wI'patmey vIpoj 'ej *Hapkido* vIghojmoH
>trI'Qal answered:
>>Very nice! There isn't anything wrong here!
>But I don't think {*Hapkido* vIghojmoH} says what he wants it to.
>Remember, {ghojmoH} doesn't mean "teach (a subject)". It literally
>says "cause (someone) to learn". The object of {ghojmoH} properly
>ought to be the person who is learning. [This starts to get into the
>problem of how correctly to use {-moH} on a transitive verb, and given
>the strangeness of the single apparent example we have so far, I'd
>rather avoid trying to do it at all just yet.]
Don't go there, ghunchu'wI'. :) This argument has been debated and hashed
out years ago, you remember that. We DO now have an example (and I think
it matches my intuitive subjective feelings), don't forget that. For
myself, I do not think it is wrong to say "*Hapkido* vIghojmoH" (I think
ghojmoH was even the classic example of the problem). Check the
tlhIngan-Hol archives; search for "biology" in 1994 and 1995 for the
various debates (one of the main sample sentences used was "I teach the
child biology"; I happen to remember that).
~mark
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