tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 09 14:35:57 1996
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Re: Noun apposition: X which is Y versus X's Y
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- Subject: Re: Noun apposition: X which is Y versus X's Y
- Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 17:36:54 -0400
qaSDI' 96-07-09 04:10:36 EDT, jatlh A.APPLEYARD:
> 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".
Remember that no Klingon uses our transcription system. It's a convenience
for Federation people. Perhaps the {pIqaD} has some sort of method of noting
proper names (or perhaps not).
SuStel
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