tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Mar 16 16:01:57 2004
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Re: headless {-bogh}?
- From: "De'vID jonwI'" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: headless {-bogh}?
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:01:12 -0500
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>>>what is the {-bogh} in the following sentence referring to?
>>><Dajatlhbogh vIyajlaHbe'
>>>I find no match for what you just said. KCD
QeS lagh:
>>However, this sentence wasn't even used in the final language lab, IIRC.
SuStel:
>I find this to be a very weak reason to ignore the example. I very much
>doubt that the sentence was unused because of any desire of Okrand's.
>Okrand was recorded saying it; how much more canonical can you get?
The problem is that we don't know how this recording might have
been used in the Language Lab. Perhaps the computer repeats to
you the thing that you just said, and concatenates Okrand's
recording to it. For example, if I said "Blah blah", and the
computer didn't recognize this as Klingon, it might play
back my words followed by Okrand's: <"Blah blah" Dajatlhbogh
vIyajlaHbe'> 'I can't understand your "Blah blah".' In that
case, the clause would not have been headless.
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De'vID
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