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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: mu'mey ru'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven)
Sun Dec 14 04:56:20 2014
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 10:55:48 +0100
From: Lieven <levinius@gmx.de>
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Am 12.12.2014 um 20:13 schrieb Felix Malmenbeck:
> He never explicitly call it a <mu' ru'>, but it would seem to fit the description quite well: An ungrammatical construction that got the point across, and highlighted a rather amusing situation.
Indeed:
KGT, p. 176, 5.3.3 "Intentional Ungrammaticality":
"Sometimes words or phrases are coined for a specific occasion,
intentionally violating grammatical rules in order to have an impact."
Probably {pItlhbe'} was not intentional, but as you said, everyone knew
what it could mean.
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Lieven L. Litaer
aka Quvar valer 'utlh
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