tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Apr 19 08:01:17 1995
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Re: While kinda KLBC ...
According to [email protected]:
>
> > According to charghwI':
> > For that matter, we may be pushing the use of {ghItlh} as a
> > verb of speech. Okrand explained in an interview in HolQeD that
> > {ghItlh} refers to the act of making marks on a page, not to
> > the act of composition.
>
> To my mind that only increases its similarity to {ja'}, {jatlh} and
> the others, which refer to making speech sounds. That is, I think
> that this interpretation of {ghItlh} makes it all the more compatible
> with direct quotation, which is concerned with the words uttered (or
> possibly written).
>
> --'Iwvan
While you might argue that, I never made any marks on a page to
send that earlier message. I typed it at a keyboard. I'm not
sure the verb {ghItlh} applies at all. DaH jabbI'IDvam vIlab
vaj DalI'. pagh ghItlhlu'pu'.
charghwI'
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