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Re: I/we with {-vIp}

QeS lagh ([email protected])

• From: "QeS lagh" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: I/we with {-vIp}
• Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 18:28:07 +1000
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ghItlhpu' lay'tel SIvten:

>It seems highly unlikely that a culturally taboo sentence would be used to 
>illustrate an unrelated grammatical point, so apparently the taboo is 
>strictly against the speaker acknowledging his own fear.

That seems pretty self-explanatory from what we know of Klingon culture, and 
my guess is that this is what Okrand meant when he wrote his original 
explanation.

QeS lagh

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