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Re: cha' Hol ngeb mu'ghommey Daj vItu'pu'!

MorphemeAddict ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol taghwI']

In a message dated 4/22/2008 22:50:21 PM Central Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> [email protected] wrote:
> > In a message dated 4/22/2008 21:44:49 PM Central Daylight Time, 
> > [email protected] writes:
> > 
> >> Second, I have to disagree with you about the pronunciation of compound 
> >> words. To stick with the same English example, there is a very real 
> >> difference between the pronunciations of "blackbird" and "black bird". 
> >> Even when (native speaker) listeners aren't consciously paying attention 
> >> to the pause, they CAN tell the difference. The blank space very much 
> >> DOES change the way you say it. (At least, it does when both versions 
> >> exist. "Ice cream" is spelled as two separate words but pronounced as 
> >> though it were a single word - but no word spelled "icecream" exists.)
> >>
> > 
> > You're using English for your example, whish is irrelevant in this context 
> to 
> > Klingon.  
> 
> Can you demonstrate that the same does not occur in Klingon? If not, it 
> MIGHT work like that. In that case, one cannot definitively declare that 
> there is no difference between compound nouns and genitive phrases. The 
> English was merely used as an illustration.
> 

Yes, it *might* work like English.  But there was no indication in the 
original that English was being used as a model for how Klingon *may* work.  
I took it to mean:  "English works this way, therefore Klingon does too."

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