<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 1:22 PM SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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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></p></div></blockquote><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">We already know that <b>-meH</b> clauses can be interpreted as "for the purpose of", especially with stative verbs.<br></div><br></div><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></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><b><br></b></div><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><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">and thus<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" 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."<br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>