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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Why not law'wI'pu' ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SuStel)
Thu Feb 21 14:19:57 2019

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On 2/21/2019 2:06 PM, Jeffrey Clark wrote:
> law’wI’ could easily be the Klingon term for gestalt beings and/or 
> entities with a collective consciousness. We don’t have much in the 
> way of common terms for those since they are not something we 
> encounter regularly, but they are decidedly more common in Trek.

Yes, but now we're reaching for science-fiction to explain what a word 
means, and the question is whether *law'wI'pu'* means simply /the many./

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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/21/2019 2:06 PM, Jeffrey Clark
      wrote:<br>
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    <blockquote type="cite"
      cite="mid:A6FE0749-4D7C-48A5-BE9D-847451E17599@gmail.com">law’wI’
      could easily be the Klingon term for gestalt beings and/or
      entities with a collective consciousness. We don’t have much in
      the way of common terms for those since they are not something we
      encounter regularly, but they are decidedly more common in Trek.</blockquote>
    <p>Yes, but now we're reaching for science-fiction to explain what a
      word means, and the question is whether <b>law'wI'pu'</b> means
      simply <i>the many.</i><br>
    </p>
    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
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