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Re: No lut tlhaQ, Eh?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Tue Sep 30 20:37:18 2008

Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:36:04 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
In-reply-to: <050960A3-D36E-406F-ACED-D0637F424660@alcaco.net>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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ghunchu'wI' wrote:
> On Sep 30, 2008, at 7:12 PM, Christopher Fulkerson, Ph.D. wrote:
>
>> As the third or fourth email I just got from Steven Boozer is signed
>> Voragh Ca Non The Master of the Klingons, let me ask you what that  
>> means,
>> if it does not mean the Master of the Klingons.
> 
> You are *still* misreading it!  Look at it again.  It says "Voragh",  
> followed on the next line by "Ca'Non Master of the Klingons".  It  
> means what it says.  What is says is not the same thing as what you  
> think it says.

Christopher is misunderstanding Ca'Non as direct address. He's thinking 
"Ca'Non, Master of the Klingons" instead of "Voragh, Ca'Non Master of 
the Klingons."

Christopher, Voragh is calling himself a "Ca'Non Master." He has already 
explained the joke.

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SuStel
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