tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu May 13 12:13:41 2004
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RE: jIqeq
qurgh wrote:
> ghItlh "d'Armond Speers, Ph.D." <[email protected]>:
>=20
>> Maybe this is an English-speaker bias, but saying {qepDaq jIjeS} just
>=20
> Part of me wants to read this as "At the meeting, I participate"...
>=20
> Would it be better to say something like {qaStaHvIS qep, jIjeS}
> "While the meeting happens, I participate"?
This seems to me to lose the connection between the meeting and my =
participation. While the meeting happens, I participate in a party down =
the street. It seems a roundabout and imprecise way of saying something =
that I would expect to be very simple and direct in Klingon.
> I'm not grammarian but at least this way it avoids the whole "is a =
meeting a
> location?" type problem and you still get to use jeS...
Agreed.
> qurgh
--Holtej
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