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Re: Direct quote of written statement

Steven Boozer ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 

5 minutes ago I wrote:

>For routine emails, {gher} may be the most appropriate verb.  From the 
>above st.k post we read that
>
>   The idea seems to be that of bringing thoughts together into some kind
>   of reasonably coherent form so that they can be conveyed to someone else.
>
>You know, this actually sounds like a definition of "essay" from a English 
>composition class.
>
>   One might also say /QIn gher/ "he/she formulates a message" or, more
>   colloquially, "he/she writes a message" (/QIn/ "message," /gher/ "he/she
>   formulates it").  But now it begins to get tricky.
>
>Indeed.  Okrand's feeling seems to be that {qon} smacks of the 
>literary.  For example in this email, since I've quoted and edited bits of 
>other messages, I definitely {gher}, but when I add my own interpretation, 
>suggestions and thoughts have I started to {qon}?

I just remembered another message Okrand wrote which I should have included:

   From:  [email protected]
   Newsgroups: msn.onstage.startrek.expert.okrand
   Date:  August 06, 1996

   nuqneH?

   This is just a quick note to welcome everybody to this bbs.  I'm looking
   forward to hearing (rather, seeing) what you think about the Klingon
   language, what works, what frustrates you, what you're up to, and so on.

   There are more and more people communicating in Klingon these days, some
   of them very expertly and some just beginning to get their tongues in shape.
   In order to include everybody, I'll be writing in Federation Standard most
   of the time.  But if you want to write in Klingon, please do!

   DaH maloS.  peghItlh!

   Qapla'!

   - Marc Okrand

In fact, it was Okrand's inaugural message to the old 
msn.onstage.startrek.expert.okrand board.  Note: {DaH maloS. peghItlh!} 
"Now, we wait. Write!" -- written two years before Maltz revealed the verb 
{gher} BTW.

(The less said about the use of {nuqneH} as an initial greeting, the better.)



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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