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Re: RE: Attending a school (was RE: Daq vIDabbogh vIchoH)



On Mon, 2 Aug 1999 10:49:14 -0400 d'Armond <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> 
> > > The concept of "attend" is one that doesn't closely map to any of the
> > > vocabulary I can think of.  {qIm} seems to work about the best of any
> > > of my attempts.
> >
> > My reflex is to go with {jeS}. {qIm} works only partly, since it
> > does not associate the purpose of the school with the stuff one
> > is paying attention to. {Such} similarly doesn't cut it because
> > it does not carry any sense of purpose. The mission is always
> > important to a Klingon, so I'd expect {jeS} to describe what one
> > does in a new school.
> 
> If it weren't Kindergarten, I'd probably prefer {DuSaQDaq HaDchoH}.  I really want to know
> whether {jeS} takes an object.  Is it {qep vIjeS} or {qepDaq jIjeS}?  I've used the former
> method, and given recent discoveries about {chegh} and verbs of motion, I'm more inclined
> to expect it to take an object.

Also consider {qepvaD jIjeS}. That would actually be my first 
choice. Second would be {qepDaq jIjeS}, which again lacks any 
link in terms of purpose. The revellations about {chegh} have to 
do with locatives for verbs that can have a target location 
associated with their movement. I'm not sure that works for 
{jeS}, and I'm not sure that {jeS} has any other justification 
for taking an object yet. Okrand can always declare otherwise, 
but so far there is no evidence that has convinced me to use 
{jeS} with a direct object.

I don't control the language and you can do what you like with 
{jeS}. I just offer what makes sense to me.
 
> > > -- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh
> >
> > charghwI' 'utlh
> 
> -- Holtej 'utlh

charghwI' 'utlh



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