tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Sep 07 09:52:48 1995

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Re: }} Nuq jatlhpu'? or What did he say?



>From: [email protected]
>Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 20:06:55 -0400

>>Chakotay said something in "Initiations", the new episode.
>>
>>Linguists,  do you know what he said?  What language was it?

>When people ask me what I do and I tell them I'm a linguist, the *mandatory*
>question for them to as me is, "how many languages do you speak?"  Why is it
>that people just think we speak all these languages?  ~mark knows more
>languages than any linguist I know personally.  (Then again, perhaps ~mark
>isn't the best exemplar of a "man on the street.")

Awwww... *blush* choquvqu'moH.  I certainly hope I'm not an example of a
typical man on the street; if I were the streets would be even weirder than
they are. :-)  Lawrence told me he has the same experience.  "Oh, you're a
linguist?  What do you speak?" to which he answers "On a good day,
English."

~mark



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