[84538] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon WOTD: ngIp (verb)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doq)
Tue Apr 29 14:35:42 2008
From: Doq <doq@embarqmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <cd7.2e193aa5.3548b8db@wmconnect.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:34:22 -0400
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
You borrow what you intend to give back. Otherwise, "borrow" is a
euphemism for stealing. As languages go, English doesn't borrow. It
doesn't even steal. It plunders.
nIHchugh tlhIngan Hol qub wanI'. roD nIHbe'. chenmoH Okrand.
Doq
On Apr 29, 2008, at 1:46 PM, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:
> In a message dated 4/29/2008 09:49:02 AM Central Daylight Time,
> sboozer@uchicago.edu writes:
>
>> Okrand discussing borrowing:
>>
>> KGT 72: It is possible that, at some time in the past, the
>> numerals were
>> "borrowed" into the lexicon of music in order to sing the scale
>> [...] It is
>> far more likely, however, that the borrowing went in the other
>> direction"
>> (KGT 72)
>>
>> KGT 205: For example, one language may borrow (and, in the process,
>> phonetically modify) a word for a concept it lacks.
>>
>
> Language borrowing is hardly borrowing per se.
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