[2553] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: -bogh question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Jan 14 14:23:11 1994
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: mark <mark@dragonsys.COM>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 94 14:11:39 EST
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From: mark at dragon-rs
Date: 1/14/94 2:10PM
To: baruch@nynexst.com at dragon-smtp
Subject: Re: -bogh question
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chotlhob:
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Ah, I see. Supposing, though, I want to be a fortune cookie and
say something like "He who is dishonest is always disgraced". Now there
really is a relative clause in there. Would the construction be
as I suggested --
web yuD ghaHbogh ghaH
--Rob
PS, DragonDictate: spkr indep cont speech?
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No, at least because you've got too many pronouns in there.
Klingon pronouns are optional; since the verb prefix generally
shows the subject and object, you need to mention them explicitly
only for emphasis or clarification (e.g., to distinguish third
person singular from plural). The agent suffix wI' will do the
job nicely:
web yuDwI'
English uses a relative clause there mainly because we don't have
a general and more convenient way of expressing "person who does
X".
-- marqem
Mark A. Mandel
Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200
320 Nevada St. : Newton, Mass. 02160, USA : mark@dragonsys.com
P.S.: Speaker adaptive discrete speech. You use it right out of
the box with training needed only if you want to use voice for
corrections as well as for dictation (the corrections are
essential). It adapts to your voice with every word you speak
(which is WHY the corrections are essential). As of the end of
this letter, my statistics are 251 words identified correctly
first try (91%), 12 that I had to choose from a displayed list of
choices (4%), 10 that I had to start spelling out to get the
right one displayed (4%), and 3 words that weren't in
DragonDictate's vocabulary (1%). ***(STATISTICS TAKEN BEFORE
THESE ASTERISKS.) Speed was only 9 words per minute, but that
includes thinking and editing time; DragonDictate produced 1259
keystrokes and I typed 58 by hand, for a saving of 95%.
