Re: VL-TRANS: a favorite saying Rob Zook Tue, 21 Oct 1997 12:29:20 -0500 At 10:43 AM 10/21/97 -0500, Saul wrote: >At 03:16 PM 10/20/97 -0500, Rob wrote: >>One key note I think important, for effective communication we should >>have no points of ambiguity. It would not seem logical that the Vulcans >>after the reformation would embrace c'thia as a way of being and yet >>keep speaking a language with ambiguities. > >You are eliminating the possibility of literary art from post-Reformation >Vulcan culture. I think Vulcans would have a longstanding tradition of an >"inambiguous voice" for describing things which can be so described, and >that such a grammatical feature would have obtained additional importance >after Surak. But I cannot agree that all the other voices would have been >silenced. You've mentioned something like this before, and really feel sure I don't understand what you mean. What kind of applications of this ambiguous voice did you have in mind? What kind of form would the grammer take, if you say use English in your examples? Rob Z. -------------------------------------------------------- Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic. -- Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky