tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu May 22 08:16:56 2003
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Re: RE: tlhobqa'qu' taghwI'
- From: "Sangqar (Sean Healy)" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: RE: tlhobqa'qu' taghwI'
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 13:13:03 +0000
>I used /DelmeH pab/ as "grammar for describing." This was my attempt to
>express "descriptive grammar," a concept we have no knowledge of how to
>communicate in Klingon. I thought it was marginally better than /DelwI'
>pab/ "thing which describes' grammar."
I suggest {Delbogh pab} for 'descriptive grammar'. It sounds from your
translations as though you consider 'descriptive grammar' to mean 'a tool
for describing a language', whereas I have always thought of it as something
that itself describes the language.
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