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RE: Using object prefixes with "intransitive" verbs

Heather Myers ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol ghojwI']

We already have a word for "expect": <pIH>.  TKD says <loS> means "wait
(for)", and <pIH> means "expect" or "be suspicious".  Please don't
reinterpret the Klingon words from an English standpoint; they're
Klingon words.  Stick with what we've been given.  There's nothing wrong
with using these words the way they're defined.  <loS> doesn't need to
mean "expect" because <pIH> already means that.

jIqel ghojwI'
<batlh wo' yejHaD je vItoy'mo' jIHem>
 
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of ...Paul
Sent: Thursday, 25 March, 2004 3:57 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Using object prefixes with "intransitive" verbs

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, David Trimboli wrote:
> You're right, but say rather that the Klingon meaning includes the
English
> preposition.  There's nothing special about the word /loS/ from a
Klingon
> point of view.  Where in Klingon you /loS/ a thing, in English you
"wait
> FOR" a thing.  English is the language with prepositions.

An example in English of a transitive form of "wait for" might be
"expect"

"I'm waiting for you"
"I'm expecting you"

/loS/ perhaps might be better thought of as "expect, wait (for)"

...Paul

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