tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Dec 15 07:39:21 1995
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Re: KLBC: Win 95 "Klingon-ized"
>Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 21:10:14 -0800
>From: "R.B Franklin" <[email protected]>
>On Mon, 11 Dec 1995, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
>Actually, there is canon to support {-Daq} on the head noun of a relative
>clause: 'u' SepmeyDaq Sovbe'lu'bogh lenglu'meH He ghoSlu'bogh retlhDaq
>'oHtaH. (DS9 trading card #99)
Hey, neat! I though Okrand's interview had forbidden this. But I like
it. Thanks for pointing it out!
>The problem is not whether it is legal, but rather the ambiguity such a
>construction can create. In HolQeD 4.2, Okrand compared the construction
>to the Marx Brothers joke, "I just shot an elephant in my pajamas...",
>and said it is a joke which works in Klingon as well as in English
>due to the dual meaning of the sentence. (It's equally ambiguous in both
>languages.) He goes on to say that such ambiguity does exist in language,
>it's not math.
>You of all people should recall this, after all, you're the one who was
>interviewing him in that HolQeD article.
Yeah, and he did say that. They say the mind is the first thing
to... to... what was it again? Argh...
~mark