tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Aug 03 13:49:43 1996
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Re: how to say "any"
- From: [email protected] (JEFF ZEITLIN)
- Subject: Re: how to say "any"
- Date: Sat, 03 Aug 96 16:43:00 -0500
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T::>Jeff Zeitlin writes:
::>>[...]
::>> {vulqangan Hol} is the language of Vulcans (the
::>> inhabitants of Vulcan).
::>>[etc.]
::>> This, of course, assumes that there is only one language (or
::>> one official language) on a planet.
T::>Thus one might also be able to say {vulqan Hol} or {tera' Hol}, no?
I don't feel that that would be "right". It's the language of
the _inhabitants_, not of the planet - the last time I checked,
none of the listed planets spoke - they were all inanimate
balls of rock, with admixtures of metal, and a thin coating of
more complex compounds.
What you've done is translated an English idiom into {tlhIngan
Hol}. Discussion here would tend, if I am understanding the
more experienced members, to indicate that doing so does not
result in {tlhIngan Hol} the way a {tlhIngan} would think it.
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