tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Sep 28 08:44:17 2000
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Re: tKLBC moHaq Dup
- From: Marc Ruehlaender <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: tKLBC moHaq Dup
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:43:56 CDT
- In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 22 Sep 2000 06:39:46 -0700
Did I reply to this yet? I think not...
In message <39CAFEB2.27258.332AAC@localhost> "Joseph" writes:
> I did not miss your point. I might tend to agree, but considering the
> quantity of other forms and words in Klingon which Okrand did not
> explain in TKD, I have no assurance that he would have mentioned
> this in TKD. One is on shaky ground when one says "I don't believe
> that person-X intended thus-and-so" unless one has spoken with
> person-X about it.
>
You are perfectly right, of course. Still, the prefix trick
- whether 'tis bug or feature - is not an "interesting twist"
but a "boring Englishism" in my somewhat but not too humble
opinion.
tlhIngan Hol pab chut vIpab.
tlhIngan Hol vIjatlhDI' 'e' vInID.
chut vIpar pagh chut vIparHa'. ram.
chutvetlh vIpar. Do'Ha'. vIpab.
Marc Ruehlaender
aka HomDoq
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