tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jan 18 06:49:36 1996
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Re: perpetual Today Is A *****
- From: "Garrett Michael Hayes" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: perpetual Today Is A *****
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 09:48:47 -0500
- Organization: Client/Server Labs
- Priority: normal
On 17 Jan 96 at 16:31, Dennis Orosz wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, William H. Martin wrote:
>
> >
> > Today is a good day (itself an odd concept; I mean what is it
> > about the duration of 24 hours that can "be" "good"?) whose
> > purpose is that somebody dies? What is the INTENT of this
> I think you've been debateing the nuances of the grammer so damn long
> your losing touch with the language...the soul of a warrior is the soul
> of a romantic, a poet, to such a person the expression "Today is a good
> day to Die" makes perfect sense, and if its ungrammatical so much the
> better!
> While I can carry on a technical conversation and write a mean
> paper on occasion, when I wanted to exhort my fire team into
> staying alive Grammer was the least of my concerns. And the
> "average" Klingon is one hell of a lot more concerned with
> survival then he/she is with grammer.
> I'm sorry to have been on this soapbox so long but you can't divorce the
> language from its speakers and expect it to make sense and this labratory
> atmosphere of stative verbs and glottial stops; sigh. Seems to me to
> completely lose the Klingon from Klingon.
pe'vIl qechvam Dajatlhbej! qaQochbe'!
chaH SuvmeH vay' DItu' vIneH!
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