tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Mar 09 13:26:50 1997
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Re: Quickie (possible spoiler)
- From: Marc Ruehlaender <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Quickie (possible spoiler)
- Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 15:26:49 CST
'etlhqengwI' says about {mu'vamqoq}:
> > Exactly! (It's a very terse tlhIngan Hol equivalent to an
> > English sentence like "This sentence is false.")
>
to which SuStel replies:
> That's what inspired it, but where "This sentence is false" is a loop or
> sorts, my "word" is simply inclusively true.
>
beg your pardon? what does "inclusively true" mean?
I admit, I have some difficulties in getting the joke;
if you mean, the suffixes are reversed and in the _right_ order
describe the construct with the _wrong_ order, I kinda see it...
(the compound of {mu'vam} with {qoq} is a legal but - at least
to me - unintelligible word)
HomDoq