tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Oct 15 10:39:42 1996
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Re: Atributively used verbs - order by degree
- From: Marc Ruehlaender <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Atributively used verbs - order by degree
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 12:39:40 CDT
- In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Oct 1996 09:50:17 PDT." <[email protected]>
In message <[email protected]> [email protected]
inia.edu writes:
> I'd go for a simpler series:
>
> Duj tInqu' > Duj tIn > Duj motlh > Duj mach > Duj machqu'
>
> Five degrees of magnitude are enough so long as measurement is remaining
> subjective, and this avoids the controversy over which is bigger, the big
> ship, the not-huge ship, or the very-much-not-small ship. Different
Fine.
> people could easily interpret these differently, so why not forego the
Aha! That was exactly what I was trying to find out. _Do_ people
interpret them differently?
> negative when trying to describe a positive attribute?
>
well, why not use the tools of the language to yield as precise a
statement as possible? Of course you're right to say that, if people
don't agree on the shades of meaning, you don't gain anything.
> On Sun, 13 Oct 1996 08:07:40 -0700 Bill Willmerdinger
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > These should be pretty clear
you see, not everybody thinks so :)
HomDoq