tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 09 09:03:14 1996
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Re: KLBC Rules... Transitive vs Intransitive
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>Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 12:19:04 -0800
>From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
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>words {ghor} and {tet} and {ngoS} are still ambiguous. We appear to have
>contradictory information about {tagh}; maybe it's one of a few that *do*
>work both ways.
Yes, it would seem to be an exception. Exceptions are okay, they make
languages fun and less artificial. Klingon seems to have few of them, but
not none. Consider an exception in the other direction with English: we
have "to fall" used only intransitively, and "to fell" used only
transitively, where we might have expected a patented English double-use.
Hey, happens.
~mark
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