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Re: KLBC?: De'wI' mughghachmey (Computer Translations)

• From: "Mark J. Reed" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: KLBC?: De'wI' mughghachmey (Computer Translations)
• Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 06:23:36 -0400
• Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
• References: <01BB8C64.82499820@bortas>

d'Armond Speers wrote:
\ Of course, /ghItlhwI'/ means "thing which prints" as much as it means
"one
\ who prints."  For clarity, my first impulse would have been
/ghItlhbogh
\ jan/, but I like the terseness of /ghItlhwI'/.  Sort of parallels
/So'wI'/
To say nothing of the English "printer", which can also mean either
"thing which prints' or "one with prints"; we seem to have no difficulty
with the ambiguity here, so why worry about it in Klingon?

-marqoS

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