tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Oct 18 11:44:36 1996
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Re: Par'Mach???
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Par'Mach???
- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 14:44:32 -0400 (EDT)
- In-reply-to: <96Oct18.063701pdt.220553(13)@compassion.hotmail.com>([email protected])
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>Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 06:42:04 -0700
>From: "Joel Anderson" <[email protected]>
>toH! "Par'Mach" 'oHbe' verengan mu''e'
> "Par'Mach" 'oH cha' wotmey 'e'
> "par" + "mach"
>Par'Mach is NOT a Ferengi word, and if you'll forgive
>the odd look of it, it seems as good as our standby
>for love "muSHa'". To me, it is an ironic construction
>(yes, a compound verb, something we've never seen before,
>right?) "dislike" (par) + "be little" (mach).
I thought of this when I saw it too, picturing a Paramount monkey thumbing
through a TKD (and skipping the long sentences). It didn't help. Assuming
you can compound verbs, it's far from clear what compounding "dislike" and
"small" together would give you. It's even farther from clear that the
result should be "to like." "To dislike only a teeny bit"? I'm sure
there's better than that, even from just flipping randomly through a
dictionary (there's "bang", after all).
>To beat my canon-drum, once again, like it or not, it
>IS a canonical word.
Our respective positions on that are known...
~mark
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