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Re: jIqeq

David Trimboli ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']



From: <[email protected]>

> ghItlh "d'Armond Speers, Ph.D." <[email protected]>:
>
> > Maybe this is an English-speaker bias, but saying {qepDaq jIjeS} just
>
> Part of me wants to read this as "At the meeting, I participate"...

Don't apply the logic of verbs of motion to {jeS}.  The object of {jeS} is
not inherently locative.

This sentence works if the meeting is a physical location.  It may not work
for, say, online meetings.

SuStel
Stardate 4368.4





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