tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 02 16:25:25 1994
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Re: Statistics on Relative Clauses usage
- From: [email protected] (Nick NICHOLAS)
- Subject: Re: Statistics on Relative Clauses usage
- Date: Thu, 3 Feb 94 20:53:36 EDT
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "Will Martin" at Feb 2, 94 10:07 am
Hu'tegh! nuq ja' Will Martin jay'?
= Jeeze. In the relative clause index, I came across as such a statistical
=lightweight... Only 9?
I calls 'em like I sees 'em ;)
=Still, it is a technique and I doubt I'll ever earn any merit
=badges without beefing up my stats...
Ah, but as you well know, writing good Klingon overrides any desire to
get good stats! ;)
=charghwI', nIDqu'bogh nuv
= Does THAT count?
Mwahaha. Actually, it wouldn't have counted even if you'd used it back
then; in order to get information on what grammatical roles RelClauses
play in main clauses, I only counted RelClauses occuring in complete
sentences. There were several self-identifications like that which I
didn't count at all.
Which reminds me: I was going to start on that HolQeD article today.
Where *did* the time go?
That's not the last of the stats I'm going to do, of course, and I'm
sure you'll recover your honour in subsequent tabulations! ;)
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