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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/22/2020 11:48 AM, Lieven L. Litaer
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:0db518cd-3978-6c74-d56d-6173dd575faf@gmx.de">This is a
poll to check your opinion or your knowledge:
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I'm working on a dictionary as part of the Klingon Language Wiki.
Now I
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wondered: How much do people know the word "in/transitive"? Does
it
<br>
maybe sound too technical?
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Would it be more useable to say
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a) - "this is a transitive verb"
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or
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b) - "this verb can take an object"
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<p>Web-based dictionaries will use either version. Merriam Webster
is happy to tell you a verb is transitive or intransitive, while
Dictionary.com says with object or no object. My physical Oxford
American Dictionary says trans. or intrans.<br>
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<p>When writing a dictionary, remember that it's not just whether a
word is transitive or intransitive, it's whether a particular
sense of a word is transitive or intransitive. A translating
dictionary will tell you that <b>Suv</b> means <i>fight,</i> but
it may not tell you that it can be used transitively, where the
object is the entity being fought against, or intransitively,
where the subject is engaging in a general activity of fighting,
possibly against itself. It's not enough just to say "<b>Suv </b>is
transitive."<br>
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