Re: CHAT: enterprise
| From: | Michael Fors <micke@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 20, 2003, 18:38 |
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Hello everybody!
I'm watching the Enterprise-series for the moment (what happens before Star Trek),
and I heard something really amusing on that show. There is a female crew
member, Hoshi. She is the language expert and she speaks Vulcan fluently, she
can understand some Klingon, plus a number of other languages. She said
something about an alien language after hearing about 30 seconds of it. She
said: "It seems to be bimodal". I am not an expert on grammar, but it sounds to
me like that has something to do with the verb modus, like the language only
has two modus (modi?). Is that really something you can HEAR when listening to
a language you don't know? I don't think so. Can anyone here give me some input
on this?
Cheerio,
Micke
"Ordinary people do fucked-up things, when fucked-up things become ordinary."
-Propagandhi
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