tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 13 06:58:11 1995
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Re: Klingon on Internet Relay Chat
On Tue, 12 Dec 1995, Alan Anderson wrote:
> maSqa' writes:
> > Right, I'm spoofing the line from ST6, "in space, all warriors are
> > cold warriors." Was the line ambiguous?
>
> Holtej writes:
> >I don't think it was ambiguous.
>
> Sure it was -- that's the whole point of the line! A "cold warrior"
> can be either a warrior who is cold or one who fights a "cold war."
> (After Khan quoted the "Klingon proverb" about revenge in ST2:TWOK,
> he said, "It is very cold in space.")
No, I got that part. (I'm not as dumb as I look. ;) I meant in terms
of the grammar, not the semantics.
--Holtej