tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Oct 24 14:24:04 2006
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Re: what is canon?
lay'tel SIvten::
> > Voragh,
> > You often comment on a KWOTD that such and such a word has never
> > been used in canon, even though the word itself is a part of canon;
> > i.e., it occurs in one of Okrand's works. What is this narrower
> > definition of canon you are using?
chunchu'wI':
>The obvious distinction is simple: there is a difference between
>"use" and "mention". Simply listing a word is not the same thing as
>using it in context.
Precisely my point only, as usual, it took me much longer to make it!
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons