tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Nov 03 06:47:41 1996
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RE: Workhorse
- From: "d'Armond Speers" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Workhorse
- Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 09:49:07 -0500
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ghunchu'wI'vo':
> I find that I must apologize. This pseudo-word isn't Joel's fault;
> it seems d'Armond is to blame. (Boy, is *my* face red.)
DopDaq qul yIchenmoH QobDI' ghu'.
> And to
> further embarass myself, I think *I* am the only one to have used
> {*'ervum} on the list previously (although I *did* mark it as an
> "unreal" word on that occasion).
This had to have happened in 1993; when did you come to the list, Alan? I
didn't think it was that long ago!
> PS: We see here yet another example of why it's important to keep
> track of where the words you're using come from. If you don't know
> what the source is, you can't be sure there *is* a valid source!
Okay, here's the story. I started writing the /pojwI'/ program soon after
I came into this mailing list, in late 1992. My sole purpose was to have a
tool for my own use, which I could use to help me read the messages which
were written in Klingon. So, I added words to the lexicon that were used
on the list. This is most evident with names, like /Qanqor/ which you will
still find in copies of the /pojwI'/.
This would be fine (for my purposes), but you see, this was in my early
days of learning the language, and I had not yet had the mantra firmly
drilled into my thick skull that one doesn't add to the lexicon, and
probably wouldn't have completely understood the ill-formedness of a N-V
compound like /'ervum/. And so, it appeared on the list, and it found its
way into my program.
Only after that, did I make this program available. And, in earlier
versions, there's no way to annotate vocabulary, to identify the source.
In current versions, there's no word */'ervum/ listed, and one can
annotate the source of words. But I'm afraid the damage is done.
I've offered up two replacement proverbs so far, but for this large an
offense, here's a third.
reH Suvrup SuvwI''a'.
> -- ghunchu'wI'
--Holtej