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Klingon Merry Christmas?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Dec 15 10:21:23 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: shoulson@ctr.columbia.edu (Mark E. Shoulson)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1993 10:19:29 -0500
In-Reply-To: Nick NICHOLAS's message of Wed, 15 Dec 93 18:50:08 EDT <1993121507
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>From: nsn@vis.mu.OZ.AU (Nick NICHOLAS)
>Date: Wed, 15 Dec 93 18:50:08 EDT
>batlh choja', Mark E. Shoulson quv:
>=Perhaps... I dunno 'bout Christmases, but I've sung "DuQuchmoHjaj qoSlIj"
>=for "Happy birthday", and it fits.
>I *was* proud of myself for coining the Du-moHjaj form; I guess it's our
>common linguistic backgrounds at work here, Mark ;) . But it fits? Not
>according to TKD accentuation (duQUCHmohjaj qOSlij). We could always take
>the copout that Klingon accentuation isn't as rigid as these rules suggest,
>as the TKD itself suggests, but this doesn't really help us.
That's the copout I was using, all right. You got a problem with it?
Remind me someday to gloss all the prosodic howlers in approximately every
traditional Ashkenazic melody.
>=>Nick "Meri Kurisimasu" Nicholas.
>=~mark
>Nick "Yevanic must have been a really cool language" Nicholas.
~mark
