tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 04 18:48:19 1997
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{-lI'}
- From: Marian Schwartz <[email protected]>
- Subject: {-lI'}
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 21:44:44 -0500
qoror here. I would like to offer an opinion. I've noticed that
often when there's a KLBC message with {-lI'} on a verb with something
inanimate as the subject. Usually the Grammarian replies something like
"Does this [thing] really have free will and intentions of its own?" I
offer that it is *not* necessarily the subject be the vay' with the
"definite end in mind." (That's not from TKD, it's just firmly implanted
in my mind.) It says in TKD that it's the *activity* that has the definite
end in mind. There is nothing in 4.2.7 that suggests or implies that it is
the *subject* that is intending. TKD offers {chollI'} as an example and
suggests the subject might be a missile. Carrying this a short step
farther, say something with {-lI'} is in a story and an inanimate object as
the subject. It might not necessarily be someone else in the story that's
doing the expecting, it could just be the reader.
Opinions?
Qapla'