tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jan 24 22:24:04 1998
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Re: KLBC: taghqa' DuSaQ
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: taghqa' DuSaQ
- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 22:23:13 -0800
At 17:04 98-01-22 -0800, SuStel wrote:
}-----Original Message-----
}From: Qov <[email protected]>
}To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
}Date: Wednesday, January 21, 1998 11:03 PM
}Subject: Re: KLBC: taghqa' DuSaQ
}
}
}>When I mentioned this to MO at qep'a' his response was along the lines of
}>"Sort of. It explains it in my new book." (This was after KGT went to the
}>printers but before it was available, making this the infuriating response
}>to just about every question we posed).
}
}Why did you find this infuriating? It meant that we WERE getting an answer
}to the question, instead of, "I'll have to track down Maltz and ask him."
It was the little smile. The "I know but I'm not going to tell you." And
that statement always closed a conversation. If he had simply stated what
was in the book we could ask follow up questions. Which he knew darn well.
I understand that he would get into a terrible knot if he answered without
careful thought specific questions from this nitpicking crowd. I enjoy
being frustrated by Okrand, don't get me wrong. :)
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian