tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Dec 03 18:41:55 1996
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RE: Sorry this is so long! (was KLBC: on naming convention)
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Sorry this is so long! (was KLBC: on naming convention)
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 96 23:05:56 UT
December 02, 1996 8:55 PM, jatlh HurghwI':
> I realized after I sent this how harsh my words sounded, so I wanted to say
> that I wasn't attacking SuStel, but merely trying to sound like a warrior. I
> apologize for that. mughojmoHta' QaghwIj. (This would make a good
> replacement proverb, you think?)
Probably not. The Replacement Proverbs seem to revolve around blaming
something else for your own mistake. In this case, you're *accepting* that
you made a mistake.
> If I had said the same thing, but not in reply to a KLBC message, it would
> not have been an infringement of KLBC, correct?
Sounds right to me!
> >qaD Dapar'a'? wejpuH!
>
> Hobe'. Hoch qaD vImuSHa'! {{;)}
yIjatlh <ghobe'>. *<Hobe'> yIjatlhQo'.
> qapumbe'! ghuHmoHwI'lIj vIlaj, 'ach chomISpu'.
<chomISmoH> yIjatlh. Is there any reason you use the aspect markers so much?
It seems to me that you're confusing them with tense.
> *tHtg* (tlhIngan Hol taghwI'
> ghom)
Ugh. Don't do this.
> poQwI' ("rules")
chutmey
> >If you've got the two nouns, one the possessor and the other being
possessed,
> >you don't need the suffix {-Daj}.
>
> I know, but I used it to make clear the purpose of the noun-noun
combination.
It doesn't work that way. Even in English, you can't say "Kruge's his ship."
Pick one and one only.
--
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
Stardate 96925.3
P.S.: There's no reason I can't correct non-KLBC messages, too! {{:-P