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Re: ponglI'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu May 6 12:48:03 1993
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From: cowan@snark.thyrsus.com (John Cowan)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Thu, 6 May 1993 10:30:44 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <9305051323.A05748@dragonsys.COM> from "mark" at May 5, 93 01:23:0
marqem writes:
> I had not looked at the Klingon names we know of (those in TKD).
> Your arguments make good sense, and I withdraw my objection.
> (Nevertheless, some confusion may ensue.)
Well, Chinese manages to survive (and even be the numerically largest
terangan language) despite exactly such a confusion: there is simply
no knowing, except from context, whether "wang2 yi3" refers to a happy
monarch or to Alice Carter (wife of James F. Carter, the inventor of
the constructed language -gua!spi).
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John Cowan cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!lock60!snark!cowan
e'osai ko sarji la lojban.
