tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Mar 09 14:07:45 1997
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Re: Quickie
jIjatlhHa':
>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.
Boy, I feel stupid - replace all the "paradox"s with "inherent truth"s. I
don't know what I was thinking, but the argument still stands.
-HurghwI'