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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/10/2018 2:34 PM, nIqolay Q wrote:<br>
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2018 at 1:22 PM SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name"
moz-do-not-send="true">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail-m_1029533369148259353moz-cite-prefix">On
12/10/2018 1:14 PM, nIqolay Q wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Or
perhaps even <br>
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<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>vIghojmeH
tlhIngan Hol qaq law' vulqangan Hol qaq puS.</b></div>
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<p><i>In order that I learn it, Klingon is preferable to
Vulcan.</i><br>
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<p>Klingon does not have a purpose of being preferable so
that you learn it.<br>
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class="gmail_default">We already know that <b>-meH</b>
clauses can be interpreted as "for the purpose of",
especially with stative verbs.<br>
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<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"
class="gmail_default"><b>Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam "</b>For the
purpose of someone dying, today is good," not "Someone dying
is the purpose of today being good."<br>
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<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"
class="gmail_default"><b>tlhutlhmeH HIq ngeb qaq law' bIQ qaq
puS</b> "For the purposes of drinking, fake ale is
preferable to water", not "Drinking is the purpose of fake ale
being preferable to water."</div>
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<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"
class="gmail_default">and thus<br>
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class="gmail_default"><b>vIghojmeH tlhIngan Hol qaq law'
vulqangan Hol qaq puS</b> "For the purposes of my learning,
Klingon is preferable to Vulcan."</div>
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<p>muponpu' pojlIj.<br>
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