tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jun 03 07:38:35 1997
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Re: jajlo'
William H. Martin wrote:
>
> Ah, but you are using indirect quotation and paraphrasing.
> Klingon does not, so far, show any knowledge that such ideas
> exist. If you quote, you quote. If you don't quote, you just
> state. You don't talk about quoting. That's the kind of vague,
> wittering jibberish that makes Klingons reach for their blades.
>
What other possibility would you then propose, if you're talking
about the content of a story, if you deny all words which have to
do with reporting that the direct object cannot be anything else
than a quote, without quoting the whole story? That makes summaries
pretty tough. I don't think that a language which even managed to
write up a Hamlet did so without being able to speak about it,
summarize it, etc?
IMHO (as little as it counts), if i can speak "Hol", I should also
be able to place a different object there, which is as equally an
abstraction of the quoted (just more specific), as is "Hol" an
abstraction of anything quoted.
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