tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 11 09:22:29 1995
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Re: Some thoughts....
>From the keyboard of Alan Anderson ( ghunchu'wI' )
> Why does everyone insist on naming things with nouns? I think that
> {qIjchoH tIq} or {qIjchoHpu' tIq} or {tIq qIjmoHlu'} makes at least
> as much sense for a title as {tIq qIj} does. For personal names or
> thing names, the "rules" are extremely lax, yet nobody appears even
> to consider the possibility of choosing a verb as a name.
[ Lurk mode off ]
How about my name, ghunchu'wI' ?
I'm not a noun or a verb, I'm a verb suffix! A rover, to be exact. :-)
> Is this
> a universal human trait, or is it an English mindset?
I have no idea. But, for the record, I am human (sorta :-) and a native
speaker of English. (American English, of course, not that horrible
British stuff ;-)
[ Back to lurking ]
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