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RE: Context

Terrence Donnelly ([email protected])

• From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: Context
• Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:50:24 -0700 (PDT)
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If we ever got a word for "context", I'd love it if the word also meant things like "jewelry setting" and "matrix" (in the sense of the rock in which minerals or fossils are embedded, not the mathematical term).

jInajba' neH

-- ter'eS


--- On Fri, 7/22/11, Felix Malmenbeck <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Felix Malmenbeck <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: Context
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Date: Friday, July 22, 2011, 10:56 AM
> I wonder if qolqoS ("essence", "the
> essential part of something") can be used: mu'[tlhegh]
> qolqoS choH ghu'. {The situation changes the essence of the
> word/sentence.}
> 
> Would be nice to have special words for such things as
> "topic" and "meaning", though.
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: [email protected]
> [[email protected]]
> on behalf of Robyn Stewart [[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 17:31
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Context
> 
> So how would people who didn't know it explain? 
> Imagine some native
> English speakers with no linguistic education trying to
> explain to a
> non-native speaker why a word ...
> 
> * means different things in different situations --> jaS
> 'oS choHDI' ghu'
> * has to be explained or else it is rude ---> mu'vetlh
> QIjlu'be'chugh Doch
> * only makes sense with other words ---> yajmeH vay',
> tlhejnIS boQbogh mu'
> 
> more?
> 
> Like so many other questions in Klingon, I guess this one
> has to be
> answered with "the translation depends on the context."
> 
> DamughlaHpa' mu' ghu' DayajnIS. Hoch ghu'vaD jaS mughlu'.
> 
> At 08:11 22/07/2011, you wrote:
> >"Context" seems like a jargon term; I don't think I've
> ever seen it
> >used outside of linguistics or literacy teaching.
> Probably neither
> >of which Maltz is very familiar with.
> >
> >-- ter'eS
> >
> >--- On Fri, 7/22/11, lojmIt tI'wI'nuv <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > From: lojmIt tI'wI'nuv <[email protected]>
> > > Subject: Context
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Date: Friday, July 22, 2011, 6:22 AM
> > > Given how often Okrand has explained
> > > that aspects of the language requires context to
> comprehend
> > > detail, it is ironic that he has not given us a
> word for
> > > "context".
> > >
> > > lojmit tI'wI'nuv
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPod
> > >
> > >
> > >
> 
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