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Re: Bucket of tongues

• From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Bucket of tongues
• Date: Tue, 7 Mar 95 07:07:07 EST

Roger Sorensen said:
>Possibly it translates as "tongues which fill a bucket" or "a bucket which 
>tongues fill".

Marc 'Doychlangan' said:
>I know what you meant, but literally I could ask
>"with what are they (the tongues!) filling the bucket?"

I replied:
>Okay, so we use {naQmoH} "cause to be full" for "to fill" in this case.

~mark said:
>Try "teb"?

{teb} wouldn't help resolve the (admittedly silly) ambiguity that Marc proposed.
I'm trying to be precise here -- the tongues aren't actually moving something
into the bucket to fill it, but they /are/ the reason for its being full.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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