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From: shoulson@ctr.columbia.edu (Mark E. Shoulson)
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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 09:31:15 -0500
In-Reply-To: Amy West's message of Thu, 10 Feb 94 16:42:11 PST <155JHc1w165w@ne
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>From: awest@netlink.nix.com (Amy West)
>Date: Thu, 10 Feb 94 16:42:11 PST
Ugh, snow days can *really* stack up your emailbox! 127 messages...
Have fun with making a Klingon version of Your Favorite OS... Someday
maybe I'll find the #include file I saw someone use that makes C code look
like it was based on Esperanto instead of English...
Just one minor point that folks should watch out for:
>taHmeH "ENTER" yI'uy...
This is okay as it stands, *BUT* bear in mind what it means. "Press Enter
in order that *it* continue." That's an okay reading of the usual English
sentence, but if you're thinking of "press enter to continue" in the sense
of "press enter in order that *you* continue", you should have "bItaHmeH".
Remember: -meH clauses are a fine way to handle infinitive phrases in many
cases, but Klingon does *not* have infinitives. All the verbs are finite,
even the ones in -meH clauses.
'Course, then there's the question of whether or not "taH" is the best
verb; "bItaHmeH <<Enter>> yI'uy" sounds like a threat to me: if you don't
press Enter, you won't continue existing... :)
>awest@netlink.nix.com
~mark
