tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Feb 15 10:01:04 1998
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Re: introduction
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: introduction
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 10:53:03 -0500
From: Marian Schwartz <[email protected]>
>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.
And if you're writing a book, I'll certainly take this into account. But if
you're talking about language or trying to communicate clearly, replacing
established meanings with your own and without clear explanation is going to
cause a lot of trouble.
SuStel
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