tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Apr 13 11:58:51 1996
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Re: indexing all Klingon words was: Re: Is it out there?
- From: Jarno Peschier <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: indexing all Klingon words was: Re: Is it out there?
- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 20:59:17 -0100
At 12:17 8-04-96 -0700, you wrote:
>I even have an idea of a new project for the KLI:
>It could be called CAT (Computer Assisted tlhIngan-Hol).
>
>With the aid of Computer make a list of all possible words in Klingon
>by joining roots with all possible affixes.
>
>That will create word we don't even dream of now.
Nice idea, but would that really be useful? Wouldn't an awful lot words in
the resulting [huge, because the number of permutations/combinations would
be huge, I think] list be nonsense? And the program would simply make
composed words, not their actual meanings as well, right?
>I remember a similar project in Esperanto which succeeded in creating words
>like "Esperantozauro" and alike.
And did people find this a useful project in general? In the sense that
words turned up that really nobody could have thought of by himself, should
the need for such a word arrise?
Qapla'
peSHIr
Jarno Peschier, [email protected], 2:2802/245.1@Fido
162:100/100.1@Agora, 74:3108/102.1@QuaZie, 27:2331/214.1@SigNet
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