tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 10 11:38:56 2000
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Re: KLBC : A somewhat advanced translation...
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: KLBC : A somewhat advanced translation...
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 14:38:14 EST
In a message dated 1/6/00 10:59:31 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
> My personal opinion is that, to the Klingon mind, there is no real
> distinction
> between the grammar of a complex word made from a noun + adjective and
> a noun + adjective phrase. That is, the Klingons see a word like {bIQtIq}
> 'river' as being sematically the same as {bIQ tIq} 'long water'; the only
> difference
> would be that long usage recognizes the fomer as a bound expression
> representing something different that 'long water'.
Interesting. And here I'd always interpereted {bIQtIq} to mean "water's
heart".
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