tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Nov 13 19:04:10 1997
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Re: bIQ'a' Doq bIngDaq
ja' "Anthony.Appleyard" <[email protected]>:
> ghItlhpu' "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>:-
>> According to Anthony.Appleyard:
>> > (to_sweat)DI' na'wI' law' chIl porghwIj.
>> "When it sweated, my body misplaced many salty ones."?
> I lost a lot of body salt by sweating: that is a chronic problem in the
>tropics.
mu'tay' Dalo'Ha'taH.
{chIl} isn't the kind of "lose" you're trying to say, and {na'wI'} would
probably have to be something that specifically *tastes* salty.
>TKD & KTG had no noun for "salt".
So don't try to say "salt". There's a perfectly good noun {tlhIl} that
is at least as good, and possibly even better.
{bIQ tlhuDtaHvIS DIr, narghlI' porgh tlhIl.}
-- ghunchu'wI'