tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jul 24 08:44:59 1997
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Re: HablI'mey
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: HablI'mey
- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 11:44:51 -0400 (EDT)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Mark Mandel" at Jul 23, 97 02:13:21 pm
According to Mark Mandel:
>
...
> Come to think of it, in the same exchange he made another recommendation. I
> didn't mention it at the time because it seemed obvious, but it really
> ought to be added to the canonical list. Since my office is in a different
> building from the company reception desk I prefer to give people the number
> of the fax machine closest to my desk. I put both numbers on the
> letterhead, labeling them in English "Klingon fax" and "general fax". Dr.
> Okrand suggested <le'be'>* for 'general', and so of course that's what I
> used.
This was mentioned in an earlier HolQeD (v5n2), which is why I
put it on the New Word list. I did not put {le'be'} because it
DID seem obvious and because Okrand has also used {motlh} for a
very similar meaning and I have not figured a way to clearly
show this.
> marqem, tlhIngan veQbeq la'Hom -- Heghbej ghIHmoHwI'pu'!
> Subcmdr. Markemm, Klingon Sanitation Corps -- Death to Litterbugs!
> ** Mark A. Mandel : [email protected] **
> Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200
> 320 Nevada St., Newton, MA 02160, USA : http://www.dragonsys.com/
> Personal home page: http://world.std.com/~mam/
>
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