Re: CHAT: t-shirt
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 28, 2000, 1:56 |
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taliesin the storyteller wrote:
> > 3) the lexicon. None of the words seem to have any relationship
> > too each other, they appear to have been made up at random (I know
> > they were, but this looks like it) like ghop and ruQ, which mean
> > hand and manually, respectively. They bear no relation to each
> > other or any other word.
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> See 2), and considering how a word's meaning might change in your
> average earthlang (my brain is toast, no examples)...
English "hand" and "manually" don't resemble each other either ...
Could be that tlhIngon Hol simply borrowed from *lots* of other Klingon
and non-Klingon languages.
Besides, maybe Klingon underwent some dramatic phonetic shifts a few
centuries ago completely distorting words beyond recognition.
> t., who has rediscovered the joys of :<start>,<stop>!par w<width>
What's that?
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