tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Oct 11 07:05:24 1996
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Re: help with this.
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>Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 21:21:17 -0700
>From: [email protected] (Denny Shortliffe)
>>>Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 08:19:11 -0700
>>>From: [email protected] (Denny Shortliffe)
>>
>>>>
>>Your answers (short and long) were *mostly* (not qualifier) correct and
>>clear... but this is clearly a newcomer asking a newcomer's question (as
>>indeed the first line of the question states) and so should have been left
>>to the Beginner's Grammarian. Remember, if KLBC were the only criterion,
>>how would any newcomers know to use it? You have to BE here to see it!
>I don't see that it's my job to determine who is and isn't a beginner.
>The criterion I was given was "Subject begins with KLBC". Your point has
>merit but I still feel that's not my job. And I don't see the BG rushing
>in here, either to deal with the problem, nor to support your contention.
>Until I receive a somewhat more official correction, I will stand by my
>policy on this.
See the archives of this list,
http://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/1996/Oct96/0503.html. I'm pretty sure
that's after you joined. (I know, the URL should be Sep96 and not Oct96;
there's a hiccup in the program. I likely will have changed it to Sep96 by
the time you look, so check both).
Besides, you want official? I'm the Grammarian (no qualifier) of the list;
does that count?
>>Consider also the verb Qeq (aim) from CK (not in dictionary).
>If, by CK, you mean Conversational Klingon, I'm not sure how you
>determined the spelling of that word. In the dictionary, it's {qeq} and
>means "to train" in the sense of "to drill", not "to aim". If it was used
>in CK in that latter sense, IMHO, it was wrong (not the only case I've
>found in that tape!). Therefore, I stand by my choice of {puS}.
The verb in Conversation Klingon is *not* {qeq}, if you listen. The
pronunciation is clearly {Qeq}, it's translated as "aim" and not "practice"
("he aims the missile perfectly"; "drill" would not make sense), it was
transcribed as {Qeq} in HolQeD and that spelling (like almost all the
others in HolQeD) has been confirmed by Marc Okrand.
~mark
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