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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/12/2019 3:05 PM, Daniel Dadap
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<div dir="ltr">On Apr 12, 2019, at 13:00, Felix Malmenbeck <<a
href="mailto:felixm@kth.se" moz-do-not-send="true">felixm@kth.se</a>>
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<p>DIvI' Hol vIyajbe', 'ach tlhIngan wabmey lo'chugh
ghItlhwI', tlhoS mu'mey vIqollaH.</p>
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<div>Do', tlhIngan Hol jatlhchoHlaw' 'op DIvI'nganpu'. cha'Hu'
jIyIttaHvIS muchol cha' DIvI'ngan. veng pu'jIn lunuDtaH.
jatlhlaw' wa':</div>
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<div>“He lo'. Haw'. 'ar yu'?”</div>
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<div>jIyajlaHchu'be', 'ach tlhejwI'Daj ghu' Dellaw'. He lo'meH
pu'jIn qenglaw'. mungDajvo' Haw'law'. 'ach qatlh ghot'e' yu'bogh
toghnIS? taQbej.</div>
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<p><i>It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite
how much importance to attach, that something like 85% of all
known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly
advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or
gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand or
more variations on the same phonetic theme. The drinks
themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian
'chinanto/mnigs' which is ordinary water served at slightly
above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan 'tzjin-anthony-ks'
which kill cows at a hundred paces; and in fact the one common
factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the names
sound the same, is that they were all invented and named
before the worlds concerned made contact with any other
worlds.</i></p>
<p><i></i><i>What can be made of this fact? It exists in total
isolation. As far as any theory of structural linguistics is
concerned it is right off the graph, and yet it persists. Old
structural linguists get very angry when young structural
linguists go on about it. Young structural linguists get
deeply excited about it and stay up late at night convinced
that they are very close to something of profound importance,
and end up becoming old structural linguists before their
time, getting very angry with the young ones. Structural
linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy discipline, and
a large number of its practitioners spend too many nights
drowning their problems in Ouisghian Zodahs.</i><br>
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