tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jan 24 22:23:54 1998
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Re: KLBC Poetry
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC Poetry
- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 22:23:03 -0800
At 10:27 98-01-22 -0800, SuSnuv wrote:
}-----Original Message-----
}From: Qov <[email protected]>
}To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
}Date: Wednesday, January 21, 1998 4:44 AM
}Subject: Re: KLBC Poetry
}
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}>} The position of Subject and Object in sentences of the poem
}>}alter all time.
}>
}>Right, and this is a permissable thing in English. NOT in Klingon.
}[...]
}>No. See page 60. "Any noun in the sentence indicating something other than
}>subject or object comes first, before the object noun." Flexibility in word
}>order is a thing allowed in English, making the English poem work. Not so
}>In Klingon.
}
}Actually, we really don't know enough about Klingon poetry or music to make
}this statement. Since Edy posted this as KLBC you are perfectly correct to
}criticize his sentence order, but for all we know some "contemporary"
}Klingon poetry allows for more flexibility.
Point taken. Klingon poets can do hatever the heck they like with words.
That's what poets do. It's up to Klingon readers of the poetry to decide
whether or not what they write is gibberish. If you're in the habit of
writing with perfect Klingon grammar and you suddenly write something
backwards to good effect in a poetic context I probably won't criticise it.
But you probably won't post it as KLBC, either.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian