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Re: Qaghqoq
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Mar 9 15:53:46 1994
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From: justcoz@deepthought.unm.edu ("Coz")
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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 13:44:56 -0700 (MST)
In-Reply-To: <199403091706.MAA11288@startide.ctr.columbia.edu> from "Mark E. Sh
oulson" at Mar 9, 94 12:06:59 pm
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> I've seen no canonical proof either; we're both working off our instincts
> and intuitions based on our linguistic knowledge and what we think is a
> "Klingon" perspective. We're obviously not agreeing, but that doesn't mean
> it isn't worth considering. As I turn it over in my head, using my own
> concept of a "Klingon point of view", I get my opinion. You get yours from
> yours. So we try to convince each other that our respective opinion is
> "better". That's the way arguments go, and its often a good way to gain
> better perspectives.
>
> ~mark
>
>
I tend to think of different interpretaions of usage as a difference in
dialects. It's painfully obvious to even the most dimwitted that there are
different ways of saying things that accepted/not accepted, depending on
where one lives. In the USA, for example, the people in Georgia say things
a bit differently than the people in, say, New York or Los Angeles. It's not
that any one way is *better* than another (although many school teachers
would likely disagree), the many ways of saying things are just *different*.
As for those of us who read (and often argue about) this list, it is not up
to us to determine the *official* dialect - that is Orkrand's perview. *We*
can only decide which things are *regional* dialects.
After all, isn't the most important thing that we get the general idea of what
we are saying to one another?
KoSneH
