tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Dec 06 09:19:44 1996
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Re: Why bother with pong?
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>Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 15:39:07 -0800
>From: [email protected] (JEFF ZEITLIN)
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>T::>>>*'orqut* jIH
> ::>>*'orqut* nuq?
> ::>>What's an 'orqut? What species is that?
> ::>>"I am an 'orqut" or "I am 'orqut", etc.....
> ::>>
> ::>It works in other languages.
> ::>"Hello, I'm Roger.
>
> ...to which the obvious immediate response is "Klingon isn't
> other languages".
True enough, and I've come out against "X jIH" as a naming statement
already.
But I recently was thinking back to my own usage, and I realize that I
*have* said "*Mark Shoulson* jIH" on occasion. Not in order to inform
someone of my name, but on the phone, when I called someone who knows me
already (by name if not voice), so they knew who called. I wonder if that
is different from giving someone your name, and if I can logically support
it for this purpose but not for naming. Or if I should drop it
altogether. Just something I realized about my own past usage.
~mark
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