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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Google Search in Klingon

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI' 'utlh)
Fri Sep 23 10:42:27 2011

In-Reply-To: <20110923140551.289690@gmx.net>
From: "ghunchu'wI' 'utlh" <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:39:17 -0400
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Lieven Litaer <levinius@gmx.de> wrote:

> Wouldn't these commands be like those told to an animal? You say {ba'}, and not {yIba'}. If Klingons regard animals not like real people, I doubt they might be polite to a computer. Is that an argument to use clipped klingon?

It is a very good argument to use clipped Klingon. I think the
question is adequately settled by Valkris's line in ST3, which matches
the pet command formula perfectly: <HablI' Su' labbeH>

-- ghunchu'wI'

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