tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Dec 24 12:02:09 2000
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Re: Grammar Highlight Each Day (bo-)
> >what did you think {luHoHwI'} means?
Alan Anderson:
> The only thing I can possibly interpret it as is "they who kill him", but
> it gets there through the odd literal meanings of "one who
> (they-kill-him)" or "(they-kill-him)er". It's a "givation" sort of
> thing, where it has only one conceivable meaning, even if it sounds
> completely wrong.
DaHoHwI' sounds to me like ``agent of your killing'' - though I can't
decide between a causative and a performative agent.
That is, does the DaHoHwI' make you kill, or does he kill for you?
It would have to be a very strange context, either way.
Jiri
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Jiri Baum <[email protected]>
As we all know, real error messages have two parts: a message code, and a
return code. Ideally, the message code is hexadecimal, the return code is
octal, and the manual explaining the error messages uses decimal. --r.h.f