tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Sep 20 07:51:15 2000
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re: end of Daj thread?
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: re: end of Daj thread?
- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:50:56 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
- Priority: NORMAL
> Qov,
> English is my first language, and Klingon is about my
> seventh (, but who's counting?). What I primarily object
> to is dogmatic explanations of words and usages which
> were never well defined in the first place. Their usage
> is being determined by how people actually do use them,
> in the cases where MO hasn't enlightened us. If a usage
> doesn't make sense to me, I try to find a rationale for
> it that does make sense, or an explanation of why it
> doesn't make sense. Using simple glosses, such as appear
> in TKD, as complete definitions is ludicrous to me.
> Behind these simple glosses there should be complex and
> often multiple meanings, each word with its own etymology
> and web of associations and possible contexts (assuming a
> real klingon universe, etc.).
Qov yIvuv. laHDaj Doj law' laHlIj Doj puS. bItIchchugh
bIDoghba'.
> BTW, has anyone written a dictionary of tlhIngan Hol in
> tlhIngan Hol? lay'tel SIvten
loQ Daj qechvam 'ach Qu'vamvaD naQHa' mu' tetlh. mu' DelmeH
mu' yap DIHutlh.