tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Aug 25 10:29:59 1996
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Re: KLBC: sources
- From: [email protected] (HoD trI'Qal)
- Subject: Re: KLBC: sources
- Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 13:30:41 -0400
At 04:14 PM 8/22/96 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>qaSDI' 96-08-22 01:37:04 EDT, jatlh trI'Qal:
>
>> Since "official sources"
>> cannot speak, we want <bIH>.
>
>Oh, yeah? What about our official source for {'I'} and {nughI'}?!? {{:-D
>
>SuStel
>Stardate 96644.4
That's one source. This is sort of like the arguement about <qorDu'>
("family").
Once, long ago, someone put a "able to speak" suffix on <qarDu'>, which was
flagged as incorrect by the BG (it was so long ago, I don't even remember
who posted, or who was BG at the time... for all I know, it could have been
*me*!). This brought forth a debate... because, although all the member of
a family are capable of speech, a *family* is not, although we often (in
english, at any rate) talk like the do. If I am not mis-using my terms,
that is a form of personification.
A "family" does not speak, although it's members do. Same thing for a
"council". Same thing for "High Command". Same thing for "sources". {{:)
I can also present to you that many of our sources are not capable of
speech, even though they all derive from that "one" source: TKD, TKW, CK,
PK, etc. I also included Klingonaase in there, and, if the author of those
books is dead (I don't know if he is or not, this is just an example,
okay?), then he is certainly not able to speak (anymore), either. {{:)
Therefore, using <bIH> instead of <chaH> is correct. :)
Sorry to drill this into the ground, but I feel an obligation to make sure
ANYTHING under the KLBC Header is fully and completely explained in detail.
It's one of my "faults" that (I think) helps me be a better BG. {{:)
--tQ
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