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Re: -Curses



From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>


>mujang SuStel:
>>On Star Trek, we've heard a lot of complete jibberish.  I'd hardly look to
>>Star Trek TV for answer to grammatical questions like this one.
>
>Then you shouldn't look to Star Trek TV for the proper usage of time words,
>should you? :-P

I didn't.  I looked at a Star Trek movie.

>>this is the first good evidence pointing towards epithets being
>>used as nouns: the fact that nouns may be used as epithets.
>
>*Ahem*
>
>Epithets *are* used as nouns.  Even when an epithet is actually an
adjectival
>phrase like "the well-off", it's used as a noun in a sentence.

Very well.  Please tell us a Klingon epithet which has been used as a noun.

SuStel
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