tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon May 13 05:06:44 1996
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Re: pong
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: pong
- Date: Mon, 13 May 96 08:06:40 EDT
- In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 13 May 1996 02:08:00 -0700. <[email protected]>
[email protected] (Daniel Noll) writes:
\ ghItlhpu' Mark J. Reed:
\
\ > "Men call me . . . Tim."
\
\ These conversations have been including more Python quotes as far we go into
\ them. Actually, one thing my Homepage should have, now that you have reminded
\ me, is the tlhIngan-Hol Python scripts. I am working on Holy Grail now, and
\ just this blasted {pong} concept has stalled my work:
\
\ "There are some who call me ... Tim"
\
\ "jIHvaD pongvam mulo'bogh vay'pu''e' tu'lu'taH ... tIm"
There are some grammatical problems with the first part -
"Someones who use me for me this name". If you want "use this name",
it would be {lo'bogh} (0 prefix), not {mulo'bogh} - they're using the
name, not the speaker.
Even given that you want the longer meaning and the delayed delivery of
the punchline, I'd still use a slightly shorter version:
{pongvam mupongbogh ghotpu' tu'lu': *tIm}
(or, for the grammatical purists amongst us:
{jIHvaD pongvam pongbogh ghotpu' tu'lu': *tIm})
"There are people who call me by this name: Tim"
-marqoS
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