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Re: miscellaneous stuff
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jan 26 19:28:01 1994
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The first among Guidos writes:
> Another Klingonic anomaly I've dug up is the lack of a word
> equivalent to "short." We have {tIq}, "be long," refering to
> physical objects, and {nI'}, "be long," refering to time
> periods. However, it's unusual that Klingon lacks "be short."
Don't be so quick to consider this unusual. In fact, it might be quite
ordinary. Things being short, both temporally and physically, could be the
default or "unmarked" case in Klingon. Another piece of Klingon linguistic
relativity? Perhaps. Or maybe I'm just fishing.
Lawrence
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