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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/16/2019 8:33 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">SuStel:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">tlhIngan leghmeH romuluSngan jach tlhIngan means
In order that the Romulan sees the Klingon, the Klingon shouts.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">There is still something which confuses me..
We have the sentence:
{tlhIngan leghmeH romuluSngan jach tlhIngan}
The first part of the sentence, the {tlhIngan leghmeH romuluSngan},
describes a purpose; the purpose that the "romulan sees the klingon".
I can't understand "whose purpose this purpose is". Is this a purpose,
which the romulan has ? Because if the romulan has this purpose, then
how is it possible that someone else, i.e. the klingon, is the one
acting towards that purpose in the second part of the sentence ?
Or is this purpose, just "a purpose in general", case in which it
<b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>does<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> make sense for someone other than the romulan, to be acting
towards that purpose ?</pre>
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<p>Whose purpose it is will be subject to context. In this case,
it's the Klingon's purpose because the Klingon is trying to get
the Romulan's attention. The subject of the main clause will
usually be the one acting toward the purpose, and I can't think of
an example where that is not the case, but it's possible someone
could construct a sentence that defies this expectation. (I'm
ignoring sentences like <b>qIpmeH Qatlh'a',</b> whose grammar I
find to be fairly impenetrable.)<br>
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SuStel
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