tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Dec 29 18:23:32 2000
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Re: Grammar Highlight Each Day (-'a' and -Hom)
Will Martin:
> veng - city
> vengHom - village
This is a good example, but it may not come across very well in the USA.
> While you might consider a village to be a small city, realize that there
> is a fundamental difference in quality other than size between a city and
> a village.
In fact, the main difference between a town and a village is not size, nor
even quality or prosperity; it is a formal difference. Town-hood confers a
certain set of privileges, particularly in relation to self-governance and
the like. Normally it is conferred by the monarch.
Thus you may have two settlements side by side, one a village and one a
town, with perhaps no more difference between them than that one was in
favour with the then-monarch a few centuries ago. The village might even be
bigger, or more prosperous; that makes no difference.
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