tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Apr 30 15:49:37 1995
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"too many"
- From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
- Subject: "too many"
- Date: Sun, 30 Apr 95 17:48:30 EST
jabbI'IDmey vIHevbogh law' law' yapbogh jabbI'ID law' puS
Does this express the concept that I have received too many messages?
For an hour and a half on Saturday afternoon, while my body was busy
mowing the lawn, my mind was trying to figure out how to say "too much"
or "too many" in tlhIngan Hol. I finally came up with something like:
X tu'lu'bogh law' law' yapbogh X law' puS
"the found X's many-ness is many, the sufficient X's many-ness is few" or
"The found X is more many than the sufficient X" or
"There is more than enough X."
I'm afraid that's as close as I have gotten. The problem is that sometimes
"more than enough" can mean "plenty", which is a GOOD thing, and sometimes
it can mean "too many", which is a BAD thing. I suppose if I REALLY need
to imply that "more than enough" is "too many" I can follow the comparison
with "This is bad."
-- ghunchu'wI'