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RE: maw' Damev!

• From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: maw' Damev!
• Date: Fri, 22 Nov 96 00:05:33 UT

jatlh Joel Anderson:

>     If I use the word "bomlut" in a sentence, wouldn't one
>     be able figure out that I mean either "opera" or "musical"? 
>  
>  No - I don't think you can count on that.  I'd suggest you
>  footnote the use in Klingon.  Make up a template like:

Actually, I'd imagine this example to be pretty obvious.  "Song-story" does 
seem to refer to a narrative which contains a good deal of song.  However, not 
all such compounds are obvious.  Apparently, HurghwI' didn't catch onto 
ghunchu'wI''s {mInyoD}.  I knew what ghunchu'wI' was talking about (after all, 
how many meanings can "eye-shield" possibly have in that context?), but 
HurghwI' didn't.

As for footnoting your Klingon . . . not all Klingon is written.  Sometimes 
(although for me, rarely), we get to converse personally in it.  How do you 
footnote that?  Do Klingons speak by footnoting?

SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
Stardate 96892.5

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