tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 23 06:17:48 1995
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Re: Word for `English'
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Word for `English'
- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 14:16:30 +0000 (GMT)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "David E G Sturm" at Jan 23, 95 09:13:32 am
>
> On Mon, 23 Jan 1995, A.Appleyard wrote:
> > Someone said that {DIvI' Hol} is canonical for `English'. But my Klingon ->
> > English analyzer says this for the word {DIvI'}:-
> > ---- DIvI' ----
> > - PP:we/them V:accumulate
> > - N:organization
>
> You blew it here, actually, >DIvI'< is defined as "federation, organization"
> **********
> with the next K-->E entry being >DIvI'may'Duj< "Federation battle cruiser"
> By extension, >DIvI' Hol< seems quite valid for "Federation language".
>
> > - N:[litter|rubble|debris]* V:accumulate
> > - N:[litter|rubble|debris]* N:[sharpshooting|marksmanship]*
> >
> > (1) This depends on English being the official language of whatever (if any)
> > organization is implicitly meant when someone says "the organization".
> > (2) The third line of the above analysis looks like Okrand's, or some bygone
> > Klingon warrior's, opinion of what large organizations' offices are like.
>
> But when did NV combinations get legal? Is the program not set up to
> eliminate compounds like that? Or at least flag them.......
>
> Of course, I always prefered >tera'ngan Hol< as a better description of
> English.
The problem with that is it means the Terran's language....which one?
-- toDbaj
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