Teddy Bear, etc.

[Ronald Butters]

On Sep 13, 2010, at 2:26 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:

> This is not to claim that it's [Klingon's] a natural language or a fully functional one.

Ah, but is it a HUMAN language?

Now that station wagons no longer have wooden sides, are they "not fully functional" station wagons--or maybe SUV's?

If you start a chess game without the queen, are you just playing "not fully functional" chess?

And so maybe the putatively non-teddy bear teddy bears are merely "not fully functional" teddy bears? Or are they teddy bears and TEDDY BEARS has undergone subreption?

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