tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Nov 18 20:36:33 1996
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Re: lut tlhaQ
Perhaps I am not making myself clear here. I am not just using "poetic
license" as an excuse for my bad grammar. Although it is not a song or a
poem *as such* it has a purposeful poetic structure. Not a Western structure,
but one of parallelism, like that found in the poetic passages of the Old
Testament. The three exchanges between the Klingon and the Terran each had
the same wording. At the end, I used the same wording again. I am fully
aware that the story does not actually "speak". I was aware of this when I
wrote it. This is not a grammatical mistake. If it is a mistake, it is an
aesthetic one, a subjective thing. I say again, poetic license. If you don't
like it, don't, but that's what it is.
taDI'oS vIq, law'wI'pu'vaD Holtej jIH
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