tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Mar 03 00:38:53 1997
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RE: KLBC: New Words - magic, magician
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: New Words - magic, magician
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 97 08:04:41 UT
jatlh Jim LeMaster:
> I looked back and obviously had still not come up with a
> worthwhile/legal word for "magic".
Hey, I was busy today. I don't spend ALL my time answering KLBC questions!
> I don't wish to break anymore
> rules,so I will ask:
>
> Is it possible to combine HoSchem (energy field) with SIH (bend) as:
>
> SIHHoSchem
> or
> HoSchem SIH as (Energy Bend{ing})
No.
You have once again tried to combine a noun and a verb in the first sentence.
You may not do this.
The second sentence says "bends energy field." If we knew whether {SIH} was
transitive or intransitive, we might say is says, "He bends an energy field,"
which is closer to what we want to say.
The closest you could possibly get to "energy field bending" would be {HoSchem
SIHtaHghach}, which is a rather ugly phrase. I suggest you don't use it.
Besides, it's almost certainly a "hindsight" word; one of those words which
you'd never get unless someone told you ahead of time what it was supposed to
mean.
Sometimes we just don't have a way to express something. "Magic" may be one
of those things we can't express now.
--
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
Stardate 97170.0