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HenrIy vagh: a comment

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Jan 31 17:53:02 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: Mon, 24 Jan 94 09:29:34 EST


I haven't had the time to examine David Barron's epic [in two
senses!] effort in detail, and I may never have it.  I'm frankly
daunted!  But I will point out the following:

>>> HenrIy vagh (edited)
>   wanI'vamDaq jeSbogh nuvmey

"nuvmey" should be "nuvpu'" or simply "nuv", since humanoid
beings are users of language (and plural marking is optional
[3.3.2]).  In this list of dramatis personae, the persons are
neatly arranged, not scattered all over.

-- marqem

                         Mark A. Mandel
    Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200
  320 Nevada St. :  Newton, Mass. 02160, USA : mark@dragonsys.com


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