tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Mar 03 00:39:17 1997
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RE: KLBC: New Words - magic, magician
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: New Words - magic, magician
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 97 08:27:45 UT
jatlh Jim LeMaster:
> > >For my own part, I challenge all my doubters of cham to give me a
> > >translation for Clark's Theorem:
> > >Any technology,sufficiantly advanced, becomes indistinguishable from
> > >magic!
jang DaQtIq:
> > jan Dayajchu'be'chugh vaj Duche' jan.
'ej bep Jim LeMaster:
> You answer my question with words not in the TKD and rail at me for
> trying to create words not in the TKD!!!
Bzzzt! Sorry! Thank you for playing!
All of the words in that sentence are in TKD.
> Close as I can get is:
>
> Any device that you can't understand thus becomes a ______ device!
He said, "If you imperfectly understand a device, then the device rules you."
> I do not understand the chugh on the end of Dayajchu'be'chugh,
{-chugh} is a Type 9 verb suffix meaning "if." "If you imperfectly understand
it."
Another example:
choleghchugh
If you see me.
> or
> Duche'.
The verb is {che'}. The prefix is {Du-}. Got it now?
> I rule that my challenge still stands! A noble effort, but it landed of
> the mark!
wejpuH.
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SuStel
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