tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Oct 28 10:38:11 2001

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Re: Loose canon



jIja'pu':
> This example fits the "canon" category rather badly, I think...

ja' Voragh:
>Your definition, perhaps; not mine.

I didn't say it fails to fit the category.  I said it fits the category
badly.  It counts, but with a disclaimer.

>By me, canon includes *ALL* legitimate
>tlhIngan Hol produced by Marc Okrand in any format...
>Whether it's widely available or not, or
>even largely unknown, is not the point.

The sound file in question lacks context, making it less useful as an
example than it might be.  It's possible that it was misrecorded and the
first word was lost.  It's also possible that the apparent missing object
is intentional, and it was intended to be used with another sound file in
front of it, perhaps {mu'} or {mu'tlhegh}.  That it is a useful example of
grammatical tlhIngan Hol is only one of many possibilities.

>So?  It's canonical Klingon if Okrand wrote it, spoke it or approved it...

It's also possible that this particular phrase was *not* approved, and
that's why it's not used in the software.

-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh


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