tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 29 11:35:14 2008
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Re: Klingon WOTD: ngIp (verb)
- From: Doq <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: ngIp (verb)
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:34:22 -0400
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You borrow what you intend to give back. Otherwise, "borrow" is a
euphemism for stealing. As languages go, English doesn't borrow. It
doesn't even steal. It plunders.
nIHchugh tlhIngan Hol qub wanI'. roD nIHbe'. chenmoH Okrand.
Doq
On Apr 29, 2008, at 1:46 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> In a message dated 4/29/2008 09:49:02 AM Central Daylight Time,
> [email protected] writes:
>
>> Okrand discussing borrowing:
>>
>> KGT 72: It is possible that, at some time in the past, the
>> numerals were
>> "borrowed" into the lexicon of music in order to sing the scale
>> [...] It is
>> far more likely, however, that the borrowing went in the other
>> direction"
>> (KGT 72)
>>
>> KGT 205: For example, one language may borrow (and, in the process,
>> phonetically modify) a word for a concept it lacks.
>>
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> Language borrowing is hardly borrowing per se.
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