tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 17 12:22:36 2006
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Re: Dragons and ketchup
- From: McArdle <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Dragons and ketchup
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:22:08 -0800 (PST)
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Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>KGT lists {Haq} as "intervene in" but in TKD {mun} is just
>>"intervene". Do you suppose that {mun} can also take an object?
>
>Unfortunately {mun} has never been used, so we just don't know.
>
That's a shame, although I rather expected it. I just wonder whether slang is appropriate here. The saying gets much of its effectiveness from its mock-serious tone, and I wonder if injecting a slang term wouldn't diminish that (like saying "Don't mess around in the affairs of dragons" instead of "Do not meddle" or "Meddle not"). OTOH if {mun} can't be used transitively, saying the equivalent of "Do not intervene the affairs of dragons" wouldn't improve things any. OTGH, only Klingons and Okrand would know *for sure* that it's wrong. Decisions, decisions.
qavan
mIq'ey
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