tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Aug 20 15:07:47 1996
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Re: Movie Klingon
- From: dpNoll <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Movie Klingon
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 08:07:42 +1000
jIghItlh:
>> Wouldn't {*Corey* 'oH pongwIj'e'}
>> be "My name, as opposed to something else, is Corey", whereas {pongwIj 'oH
>> *Corey*'e'} would be "My name is Corey (not something else)"?
ghItlh SuStel:
> I would expect to see the first sentence in a case where someone was asking
> what your name was. The second I'd expect if, for example, someone saw a
> Klingon paragraph, and saw a word he didn't recognize: "Corey." He would ask
> what that word means, and Corey would reply {pongwIj 'oH *Corey*'e'}.
Wait one second here, though. If you say {pongwIj 'oH *Corey*'e'}, you'd
be emphasizing the word *Corey*, which has already ocurred in the question
he was asked. Isn't it a little better to answer a question about one noun
by emphasizing a -new- noun?
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