[Tlhingan-hol] tlhoS

[Lieven]

You are really a strange guy - at 13:30 you mention my message being a 
good explanation for the use of {tlhoS}, and then only one hour later at 
14:45 you write that you get angry because of what I wrote. Dr. Jekyll 
and Mr. Hyde are back.  ;-)

I wrote:
>> I read it as they are all still alive, he "almost" killed them, but "not
>> quite". It's not that he killed only three or four, so close to five
>> maybe. Klingons are never approximate. They would say "he killed them
>> all".

Am 18.03.2016 um 14:45 schrieb SuStel:
> The more people use the "Klingons are never approximate" excuse to avoid
> a real answer, the angrier I get.

That was no an excuse, and I did not try to avoid the answer. I did 
answer the question.

I did not mean to focus on the phrase about accuracy, I just wanted to 
show the difference between "almost doing something" and "doing 
something to almost a number".

> The throwaway line is obviously SUPPOSED to mean that although Klingons
> aren't perfect, they like to be as exact as possible, and not vague.

Thanks for reminding me of the complete phrase (which was from CK, not 
PK, by the way): "Though Klingons are sometimes inaccurate, they are 
*never* approximate."

Saying "He killed them all" is inaccurate.
Saying "He killed most of them" is approximate.

Do I misunderstand this?


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Lieven L. Litaer
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