tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jun 23 08:40:41 1995

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Re: A short story

• From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: A short story
• Date: Fri, 23 Jun 95 11:40:38 EDT
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "Bill Willmerdinger" at Jun 22, 95 10:38 am

According to Bill Willmerdinger:
> 
> The idea for this came to me at work today (yes, I was that bored).  I tried
> to write this without using any suffixes to maintain the rhyme <g> but I had
> to use one.  Let me know what you think; I *believe* that I got them all.
> 
> Hatlh ghatlh Qu'vatlh.  Qatlh Satlh.  'ach, matlh wa' vatlh latlh 'ej batlh
> jatlh.  watlh patlhchaj.  qatlh ratlh Qovpatlh?

wejpuH.

Actually, this is rather impressive. Unfortunately, you seem to
treat all curses as nouns. While this is true of epithets like
{Qovpatlh}, it is not true of exclammations like {Qu'vatlh},
which stand alone as sentences. Think of them as similar to
{ghobe'} or {HIja'}. They are verbal responses to a situation.
They do not normally belong as parts of other sentence.

charghwI'
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