[85752] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Once more into the ship in which I fled
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mcardle09@yahoo.com)
Fri Jun 19 23:13:41 2009
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:11:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: mcardle09@yahoo.com
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
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--- On Fri, 6/19/09, David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name> wrote:
> From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
> Subject: Re: Once more into the ship in which I fled
> To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
> Date: Friday, June 19, 2009, 7:34 PM
> McArdle wrote:
> >
> > I'd be glad to hear other people's reactions to this.
>
> Well, it makes for good reading, but I don't see that this
> solution is
> any more desirable than any number of other possible
> invented solutions
> to the problem, or indeed any more likely to be the
> "correct" one.
>
Seriously? It has exactly the same merits and demerits as every single one of the other proposed solutions? Or, failing that, at least the exact same _balance_ of merits and demerits? That seems extremely unlikely on its face.
I think the only way this can be true is if you've decided a priori that no conceivable proposal has any chance of being "correct" or "desirable". Which is, in fact, a defensible position in light of Klingon's status as a language with a Single Source of Truth (especially when the SST has reputedly found the problem insoluble). But it does sort of get in the way of discussion.
Qapla'
mI'qey
