tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 09 15:50:15 1998
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Re: introduction
- From: Marian Schwartz <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: introduction
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 18:49:17 -0500
ghItlh charghwI'
>Again, you need to find a way to notate these two different
>sounds as they occur. Otherwise, it is as if we were discussing
>color and I told you that in my country, the word for "white"
>is "black" so we pronounce "black, white, black" as "black,
>black, black" and it is YOUR job to figure out which color I'm
>talking about when I say, "black".
jatlhpu' Lewis Carrol:
>... I maintain that any writer of a book is fully authorised in attaching
>any meaning he likes to any word or phrase he intends to use. If I
>find an author saying, at the beginning of his book, "Let it be under-
>stood that by the word 'black' I shall always mean 'white' and that
>by the word 'white' I shall mean 'black'," I meekly accept his ruling,
>no matter how injudicious I think it.
Qapla'
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