tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 14 12:15:19 2004
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Re: jIqeq
ghItlh David Trimboli <[email protected]>:
> 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.
Are you suggesting that -Daq doesn't work with online locations?
To me, an online meeting has a physical location, it's simply one in cyberspace
and not real space. When I meet with someone in a chat room, that chat room is
a location, it's a virtual location but it's still a location. I would say,
{pa'Daq jIjaHmeH De'wI' vIlo' 'ej jIjaw'} "I use the computer in order to go to
the room and chat". (I think thats right)
Can {jeS} even take an object? To me you can't "participate" something, you can
only participate in or with something.. With this in mind it seems that {jeS}
is very limited, unless I'm barking up the wrong tree.
qurgh
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