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Happy 1994 and all that
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Jan 2 20:30:02 1994
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: nsn@vis.mu.OZ.AU (Nick NICHOLAS)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 94 12:27:09 EDT
Hullo. Just a quck note to say a couple of things:
I'll be getting my modem back sometime this week, so hopefully I can get
back into reviewing text here and flooding the list again. (David Barron,
that means you! ;) I got three scenes (16 K) of Much Ado awaiting uploading;
the last thereof includes the obligatory Shakespeare clown, which I tried to
convey using 'dialect'; I'd be interested in your critiques as to how
successful it was.
It would make sense if we started looking for an ftp site to store Klingon
text. It wouldn't be impossible to impose on the Lojban ftp site, but I'd
rather we didn't.
yIn nI' je chep?! wIquvHa'mohlu' jay'!
I've just read Comrie's _Language Universals and Linguistic Typologies_,
which was quite an eye-opener. One of the things it taught me is that
we needn't fuss so about relative clauses, because many relative clause
systems in languages out there are weaker than Klingon's. There's a down-side
to it though. Sure, Malagasy (champion VOS language) only has its relative
clause heads as the subjects of those relative clauses; but to get around
that, it not only uses passives, to make direct objects subjects, but also
other verb voices, to make *indirect* objects subjects. Woe betide us, for
I don't see that drastic an addition to Klingon any time soon. (The Lojbanists
out there may be reminded of our "jai+BAI" --- yes, once more Lojban
reinvents the wheel! ;) ).
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Nick Nicholas, Breather {le'o ko na rivbi fi'inai palci je tolvri danlu}
nsn@krang.vis.mu.oz.au -- Miguel Cervantes tr. Jorge LLambias
