Re: Daleks from Cambria

[John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>]

Andrew Fferreir yscrifef:

> I'm not sure what Krankor's Sign is [...]

It's a literal sign (a board attached to a pole) saying "Word Order!"
in English, and I believe it physically exists.  However, it is only
notionally that people are hit on the head with it when they
produce SVO-Klingon.

> I think in colloquial Brithenig culpa survives as colff.  It should be in
> the lexicon.

Distinguo.  "Culp" (n.) would be "fault", whereas "colff" (n.) would be
"blow, hit"; an excellent case of "learned" vs. "popular" terms.

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John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (FW 16.5)