tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jan 05 12:31:29 1997
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RE: KLBC's RE: First Post pt.2
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC's RE: First Post pt.2
- Date: Sun, 5 Jan 97 18:27:03 UT
January 04, 1997 6:48 PM, jatlh [email protected]:
> Can you define the word "canon" for me? I looked it up in my (English)
> dictionary but it didn't have a grammatical form, only religious. I have
> inferred the meaning from seeing it in various contexts, but what does it
> really mean?
"Canon" is that which is official, proper, accepted. I'm not sure of the
general usage, but the term is here used for {tlhIngan Hol} to mean "that
which Okrand has given us." That which is not canon, "doesn't count."
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SuStel
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