tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Nov 24 01:03:07 1997
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Re: maHagh tlhInganpu'
- From: "Anthony.Appleyard" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: maHagh tlhInganpu'
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 09:02:43 GMT
- Organization: Materials Science Centre
- Priority: normal
ja' "Anthony.Appleyard" <[email protected]>:
> Some would say that a noun {tlhInganpu'} / "Klingons" is 1st-person when the
> speaker is one of them, or 2nd-person when the speaker is talking to them.
jang Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
> Those who would say that are disagreeing with TKD. According to section 5.6
> it is merely a word used in direct address, grammatically unrelated to the
> rest of the sentence.
In Latin the equivalent form {Tlingani ridimus} is legal: compare the
well-known speech by arena gladiators {Ave Caesar, morituri te salutamus} =
{yIpIv, Caesar, pIvan HeghwI'pu'}