tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Nov 08 21:22:43 1997
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Re: KLBC: verb suffix on noun ?
- From: "WATT FAMILY" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: verb suffix on noun ?
- Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 15:09:24 +1000
don;t send it to [email protected] moore
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> From: [email protected]
> To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: KLBC: verb suffix on noun ?
> Date: Thursday, 6 November 1997 18:22
>
> In a message dated 97-11-05 02:29:28 EST, you write:
>
> << My view is that "mark (in coordinates)" is a separator, and the
section
> numbering in the dictionary can be considered as coordinates. {DoD} is
> arguably appropriate here; I hope everyone can accept the argument as a
> valid one, even if they disagree with it. A decimal point indicates the
> boundary between integer and fraction parts in a digital representation
> of numbers, and while the section labels do follow a numerical sequence,
> they aren't really numbers. And there is *never* more than one decimal
> point in a number.
>
> I've got no problems pronouncing an IP address like 128.0.0.1 as
> {wa' cha' chorgh DoD pagh DoD pagh DoD wa'}. Most people pronounce this
> use of "." with the word "dot", not "point".
>
> -- ghunchu'wI'
> >>
>
> jIQochbe'
> mIwvam vIlo' je jIH
>
> peHruS