tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 25 09:34:50 1997
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Re: Words
- From: "Robyn Stewart" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Words
- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 09:34:48 PST
- Organization: NLK Consultants, Inc.
- Priority: normal
ghunchu'wI' writes:
> [email protected] writes:
>
> >baQa'
> >General invective (excl) [TKD p178]
> >what does excl mean and what does the entire passage mean
> It means that you need to get yourself a real copy of The
> Klingon Dictionary and read it. Page 178 contains an expanded
> description of curses, which are introduced in section 5.5
> "Exclamations" on pages 57 and 58.
Good point, ghunchu'wI'. I didn't recognize the quote as being from
a supplemental wordlist.
DarkShadow, there is no WAY you're going to learn this language
without TKD. You're putting in the effort, now put in the ten
dollars and get the dictionary. If you have to talk your parents
into getting it for you, well Christmas is coming and you can tell
them that you have Qov's guarantee that serious study of Klingon will
improve your knowledge of English grammar, improve your ability to
learn more widely spoken foreign languages, and may also increase
your ability to express yourself clearly in English.
> Briefly, (excl) means it's an exclamation. That's an utterance that
> stands alone as a sentence, like "Aha!" or "No." An invective is a
> curse that just expresses one's feeling about a situation, like
> "Drat!" or "Oops."
In my dictionary "invective" is "violently abuse language." "Drat"
and "oops" are exclamations but I wouldn't class them with invective.
- Qov
Robyn Stewart [email protected]
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