tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 09 01:06:53 1996
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Noun apposition: X which is Y versus X's Y
- From: "A.Appleyard" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Noun apposition: X which is Y versus X's Y
- Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 09:05:58 GMT
- Organization: Materials Science Centre
- Priority: normal
Dave Yeung <[email protected]> wrote:-
> ... it makes no difference whether {qeylIS puqloD matlh} means "Kahless' son
> Maltz" or "Kahless' loyal son". If Kahless' son is loyal, he would probably
> name him Maltz. Perhaps all Klingon names have meanings, or once had
> meanings as English names once did also.
What if Kahless had other sons, who were also loyal? Sometimes the great god
Context, that much automatically relied-on resolver of ambiguities, proves,
like Baal on the mountain, to be `gone a-hunting' or otherwise absent from
duty. This partly is due to written Klingon having no way to capitalize
proper-names, and partly due to it (like "Y-e-X" in Persian) using the same
construction for "X which is Y" and "X's Y".