tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Feb 23 17:43:43 1999
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Re: qama'
In a message dated 2/22/1999 11:55:24 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
<< please recognize that *'arDIch* is
not a word. It is a pair of syllables that you alone would like
to treat as a word. The rest of us will likely continue to
ignore it.
If Okrand comes along some day and uses it or some other word
with its meaning, we'll go for it. Meanwhile, we went a long
time without "wall", and somehow, I think that is a more
fundamentally necessary meaning than the one you would choose
for your *'arDIch*. >>
I will never claim that {'arDIch} already is a word. This was a deliberate
contrivance. I will not use it.
May it follow the path of all armpits.
peHruS