tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 03 00:51:43 1997
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Re: weQwIj
- From: Ivan A Derzhanski <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: weQwIj
- Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 10:51:50 -0800
- Organization: Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science
- References: <[email protected]>
Re the newness that T'Lark has felt compelled (due to rhyme constraints,
to everyone's dissatisfaction) to attribute to Edna St Vincent Millay's
bilateral candle, how about ...
cha' DaqDaq meQtaH weQwIj lI'; [...]
'a toH! [pe]qIm, jaghwI', jupwI' --
It is still not quite there (it would be better to avoid the epithet
altogether), but I think that `useful' is more tolerable than `new'.
As for the loss of {-pu'}, recall that in Klingon singular grammatical
number need not imply singular reference.
--'Iwvan
--
"mIw'e' lo'lu'ta'bogh batlh tlhIHvaD vIlIH [...]
poH vIghajchugh neH jIH, yab boghajchugh neH tlhIH"
(Lewis Carroll, "_Snark_ wamlu'")
Ivan A Derzhanski <[email protected], [email protected]>
Dept for Math Lx, Inst for Maths & CompSci, Bulg Acad of Sciences
Home: cplx Iztok bl 91, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria