tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jun 13 10:11:14 2003
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Re: Star Trek monologue
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Star Trek monologue
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:04:45 -0400
SuStel writes:
> >ter'eS:
> >> >> Shouldn't this be {'enterpray' 'ejDo'}? I thought we even
> >> >> had canon for this.
> >
> >Voragh:
> >> > nImbuS wejDaq 'ejDo' 'entepray' ngeHlu'pu'
> >> > The starship Enterprise has been dispatched to Nimbus III. ST5
>
[...]
> There's no rule-breaking going on here. You're just not seeing the
> difference between a genitive construction and apposition.
>
It has seemed to me for a while that the pattern "name-classifier" is
basically the norm for Klingon. I thought that "name-ship classification"
in the case of the Enterprise would follow the same pattern, and thought
we had canon to that effect. Turns out we don't. End of discussion.
-- ter'eS