tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Mar 08 18:33:51 1997

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Re: Quickie



jatlh ghunchu'wI'
><mu'vamqoq> qeltaHvIS, ja' 'etlhqengwI':
>>On  7 Mar 97 at 22:31, [email protected] wrote:
>>>      "This so-called word" I don't get it, what's that supposed to mean?
>>Exactly!  (It's a very terse tlhIngan Hol equivalent to an
>>English sentence like "This sentence is false.")
>
>chaq yajbe' je 'etlhqengwI'.
>"This sentence no verb" rurqu' mu'qoqvam 'e' vIQub jIH.
>QIjnISlu', chaq tlhaQbe'choH.

mu'tlheghbej 'oHbe'mo' "Epidemes paradox" 'oHbe' mu'thleghlIj, 'ej 'oS'egh
'oH (It isn't self-referential). <<rghIlb HbQIng Hobjob> rap <mu'tlheghvam
yajlaHbe'lu'>> jIjatlh 'e' rur mu'tlheghlIj. teHlaw' 'oH, 'ach DabuSDI',
teHHa'bej je' Dap 'oH 'e' Dalegh. 

Your sentence isn't a sentence, so it doesn't refer to itself, and thus is
not paradoxical, but simply nonsense.

-HurghwI'


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