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Originally Posted by Jorg
Thanks.
I typed "attempt" into a dictionary and it gave me せんとする and at some point in the past I read that こと makes the verb preceeding it a noun. So, I thought, せんとすること would become "attempting". The に before it... actually I'm not too sure about that one myself, but it was meant to be a preposition of some kind.
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せんとする is a
literary way of saying "to attempt" and you will not use it in saying something as casual as "What's this dude tryin' to say?"
I was wondering more about how you got the ことか part. It makes no sense when combined with せんとする.