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Re: Mailing list search function // WIKI commands

QeS lagh ([email protected]) 

ghItlhpu' (???) Christoph:
>tetlh ra'wI'mey vIlobmeH, tlhIngan jIghItlhtaH. 'e' muqeq. jIqeqnISba'.
>SKI: To follow the list rules, I will write on in klingon. That trains
>me. I need to practice, obviously. (anyway)

jangpu' ngabwI':
>{tlhIngan vIghItlhtaH} sounds like "I'm making marks on a Klingon",
>depending on how {ghItlh} actually works. As was shown by Voragh in the
>{ghItlh} {Qub} {Har} "If You're Happy", etc. ueberthread, {ghItlh} has very
>little to do with writing. It's only making marks on whatever.

It just has to do with actual inscription, as evidenced by the word 
{ghItlhwI'} "editor". An editor rarely does any kind of real "writing" - 
more crossing out, ticking, scribbling. Also, in KGT we are told that a 
{ghItlhwI'} "stylus" is used in sculpture, and in this function is an 
"inscriber" rather than a "writing implement".

>So to be safe(r), I suggest {lo'} "to use":
>{tlhIngan Hol vIlo'} "I will use Klingon"

I'll just add a little something to what ngabwI' said (which was all correct 
IMHO, and good style as well as grammar): Remember that {tlhIngan} refers to 
a Klingon *person*. It appears to be derived etymologically from {tlhIng} 
"Kling district on Kronos" + {ngan} "inhabitant". When you mean the Klingon 
language, always say {tlhIngan Hol}.

(BTW: I'm not trying to pick on you. I just notice that you have done this a 
couple of times in the past. Many of us have "pet mistakes", ones we make 
fairly often - just try and keep them in mind all the time, and that's one 
way to improve.)

Savan.

QeS lagh



not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' qan je
(Old roads and old friends will never deceive you)
     - Ubykh Hol vIttlhegh

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