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I would just like to add (because it may help you with future problems) that what may actually be throwing you off is the lack of tense in Klingon. One way to translate {jIvut 'e' vIparHa'} is "I like that I am cooking." However, depending on context, you
might also interpret it as, "I like that I cooked," "I like that I will cook," "I like that I do cook," and other variations too.
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org> on behalf of Aurélie Demonchaux <demonchaux.aurelie@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 9, 2017 6:31 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> tlhingan-hol@kli.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [tlhIngan Hol] KLBC - How to say "I like to do/doing something"</font>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I've been wondering, what's the correct way to express liking / disliking an activity?</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">For example, saying:</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"I like to cook"</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">or "The Vulcan doesn't like to fight"</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">We have some examples of <par> and <parHa'> being used with nouns or pronouns but I can't find any canon source where they apply to verbs.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Do you use {'e'} or nothing in those cases?</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">As in:</div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="times new roman, serif"><jIvut vIparHa'> vs <jIvut ’e’ vIparHa'></font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="times new roman, serif"><Suv par vulqangan> vs <Suv ’e’ par vulqangan></font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">My "feeling" would be to use no ’e’ , similar to the construction with <want> (neH), because 'e' is the equivalent of "that", so using it would mean "I like that I cook" / "The Vulcan
doesn't like that he fights", implying that the cooking/fighting is actually happening now, instead of stating "I like cooking in general"/"the Vulcan doesn't like fighting in general" (but I'm not necessarily cooking right now and the Vulcan is not fighting
right now either).</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">What do you think?</div>
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