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Re: RESENT: Bounced Mail IV
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Apr 29 10:31:23 1993
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From: Captain Krankor <krankor@codex.prds.cdx.mot.com>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 93 02:41:25 -0400
A.APPLEYARD writes:
> On Tue, 27 Apr 93 15:52:09 -0400 Captain Krankor suggested:
> (0) tIqwIjDaq yIttaHvIS nov tIqDaj 'oH 'e' Dalaw' ghaH
> while the stranger walks in my heart, he seems to act as if it is his heart
> but this is even longer.
Since when did length become the yardstick for correctness? There
are already plenty of examples of things which come out longer and
require restructuring to say in Klingon. There are also examples of
things that can be said more compactly in Klingon than in English;
does this somehow invalidate the English? Yep, my solution is
longer than one with a non-existant suffix, but it exists in current
Klingon right now. English would often be much easier to use if
there were an easy way to distinguish between you-singular and
you-plural. But there isn't. That's just how it is.
Yes, I too have my wishlist about things that would be good for the
language to have (for instance, I agree about the need for something
beyond ghaj to indicate ownership), but the path of honor lies in
learning to use the language that is, not in complaining about what
it lacks. Agreed, it is useful to point out the warts when we find
them, but I see no reason to dwell on them.
--Krankor
P.S. As an afterthought, let me point out that
"tIqwIjDaq yIttaHvIS nov tIqDaj 'oH 'e' Dalaw' ghaH"
is exactly two characters *shorter* than the original:
"The stranger walks in my heart as if it were his own"
It is also only one syllable longer.
