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[Tlhingan-hol] Piraha
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (qunnoQ HoD)
Sat Oct 31 14:40:30 2015
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 20:40:13 +0200
From: qunnoQ HoD <mihkoun@gmail.com>
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it so happened,that earlier today i saw part of a documentary concerning
the evolution of terran languages. in this documentary,a universal property
of EVERY earth language was described (the linguistic term currently eludes
me). This attribute is the ability to expand the length of a sentence -in
theory- indefinitely..
example :
''..the pink targh with red dots we used to have grew very noisy,so my
mother cooked it and after eating it,I took my bird of a prey for ride,to
test its recently installed warp core,which was very costly to acquire,but
the interstellar patrol arrested me just as i was about to hit warp factor
9,let alone the fact that they scratched its hand-made klingon emblems etc
etc.."
the only terran language (according to the documentary) which doesn't have
the aforementioned attribute is the language of a secluded tribe called
"the Piraha" ; the same language has also the characteristic that it
doesn't have tenses. Everything is described in the present tense.
So, I would like to ask.. Does Klingon have "a maximum sentence length" ?
Or theoretically someone would be able to "expand" a sentence indefinitely
? Is there a rule in canon,which prohibits a sentence to grow beyond a
certain length ?
qunnoQ
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<div dir=3D"ltr">it so happened,that earlier today i saw part of a document=
ary concerning the evolution of terran languages. in this documentary,a uni=
versal property of EVERY earth language was described (the linguistic term =
currently eludes me). This attribute is the ability to expand the length of=
a sentence -in theory- indefinitely..<br><br>example :<br><br>''..=
the pink targh with red dots we used to have grew very noisy,so my mother c=
ooked it and after eating it,I took my bird of a prey for ride,to test its =
recently installed warp core,which was very costly to acquire,but the inter=
stellar patrol arrested me just as i was about to hit warp factor 9,let alo=
ne the fact that they scratched its hand-made klingon emblems etc etc..&quo=
t;<br><br>the only terran language (according to the documentary) which doe=
sn't have the aforementioned attribute is the language of a secluded tr=
ibe called "the Piraha" ; the same language has also the characte=
ristic that it doesn't have tenses. Everything is described in the pres=
ent tense.<br><br>So, I would like to ask.. Does Klingon have "a maxim=
um sentence length" ? Or theoretically someone would be able to "=
expand" a sentence indefinitely ? Is there a rule in canon,which prohi=
bits a sentence to grow beyond a certain length ?<br><br>qunnoQ<br></div>
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