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Re: Klingon WOTD: wej (adv)

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: wej (adv)
• Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 20:18:07 EDT

In a message dated 2004-08-13 3:32:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> I've always been bothered by the homophony with <wej> "three".
> If someone was on look-out and he says <wej vIlegh> how am
> I supposed to know if that means "I don't see him/her/them yet"
> or "I see three of them"?  Context in that case wouldn't really
> help.
> 
> --
> De'vID
> 
I think this homophony would be so ingrained in a Klingon that he would never 
say just {wej vIlegh}; learning ways to avoid this time of ambiguity might 
even be part of his childhood training.

lay'tel SIvten

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