tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Dec 12 13:00:22 1995
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Re: Klingon on Internet Relay Chat
- From: "Christian Matzke" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Klingon on Internet Relay Chat
- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 16:04:48 -0500
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- Return-Receipt-To: "Christian Matzke" <[email protected]>
On 12 Dec 95 at 9:54, d'Armond Speers wrote:
> > maSqa' writes:
> > >*Maine*Daq SuvwI' bIr chaH Hoch SuvwI''e'
> > >(does that use {Hoch} correctly?)
>
> ghunchu'wI'vo':
> > You're using
> > {chaH} in its verb form in both senses of "to be" simultaneously.
> > {*Maine*Daq chaH SuvwI''e} and {SuvwI' bIr chaH SuvwI''e'} are
> > both valid sentences (though the second one is rather convoluted),
> > but I'm not sure the combination is reasonable.
>
> I don't follow you here. His intended meaning was, if I'm reading
> it right, "In Maine, all warriors are cold warriors." I don't think
> he means that all warriors are in Maine. Of the warriors who happen
> to be in Maine, all of these warriors are cold. This works fine for
> me.
Right, I'm spoofing the line from ST6, "in space, all warriors are
cold warriors." Was the line ambiguous?
> > -- ghunchu'wI'
>
> --Holtej
maSqa'
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