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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] The blind hermit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven)
Thu Mar 16 15:32:01 2017
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From: Lieven <levinius@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 20:32:01 +0100
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I wrote:
>> He has written a short poem which, according to him, makes the
>> structure of semantic elements easily visible and therefore seems to
>> be good to compare languages.
Am 16.03.2017 um 19:14 schrieb SuStel:
> I find this claim either dubious or misstated. Semantics are different
> in different languages; why would English semantics presented in a
> certain way lead to useful semantic comparisons in other languages?
I agree that it's confusing, that's why I said "according to him". I
also do not see how these sentences can easily be compared, and we know
from the Bing project that computers certainly cannot identify semantics
easily.
> I tried to stick as closely to the English words and structure as
> possible, even if there is a better way to say this in Klingon. I kept
> personified things as non-speaking things.
That went very quick! Can I forward it to him right away, or would you
wish to wait until the community has given its suggestions?
--
Lieven L. Litaer
aka Quvar valer 'utlh
Grammarian of the KLI
http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher
http://www.klingonwiki.net
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