tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 14 22:15:10 1996
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Re: Klingon-American :(
- From: [email protected] (HoD trI'Qal)
- Subject: Re: Klingon-American :(
- Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 01:16:18 -0400
At 02:12 AM 8/14/96 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>
>>I noticed a while ago that American usage showed in the presence of
>>these two words from TKD:
>>
>>veng city
>>vengHom village
>>
>>Now, normally one has three graduations of settlement size..village,
>>town, city. So far as i can tell, Americans don't have towns...they seem
>>to call everything a 'city'
>
>>Niall Hosking
>
>Actually Americans *do* have "towns". The term in its strict sense,
>however, doesn't mean a collection of houses and shops, etc. like a city or
>village. It is a shortened version of "township", which is the unit of
>government for an area of approximately 36 square miles, six miles by six
>miles. I believe that in most states, there is a minimum population
>requirement, but it must be quite small, because I know of a couple of
>townships with only four or five households scattered around in them. All
>incorporated communities, even as small as 50 or so people, have the title
>of city in a legal sense, while the term "village" is a thing of the past.
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ghobe', bIQaghchu'.
qaStaHvIS wej DIS, "The Village of Ottawa Hills"Daq jIyIn. yIntaH vavoywI'
be'nalDaj je. "village"na' 'oH: "Toledo"Daq SaHlaw', 'ach tlhabbej. tlhab
DuSaQ. "The Village of Ottawa Hills"Daq "taxes" DIl. "map"meyDaq chevlu'.
'ej "community"na' 'oHba'.
vaj... "Village" Daleghpu'be'mo' SoH neH, pagh tu'lu' 'e' yIchovHa'Qo'!
--tQ, proud past-resident of a true American "village" :)
SKI (whatever Qov made it stand for :) )
trI'Qal is jumping on poor wIghbe', because s/he(?) assumed that there are
no more "villages" inthe USA, when she lived in one for 3 years. (Written
in Klingon, 'cause it is waaaaay off-topic...)
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