tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 09 07:26:12 1998
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Re: KLBC: equally beautiful
According to [email protected]:
>
> I have been struggling some with the following concept:
>
> Your pot is as big as a water keg.
> 'unlIj tIn law' bIQ qegh tIn puS is okay for "bigger than".
> I want to express that they are the same size, or at least approximately the
> same size.
>
> If this were allowed: 'unlIj tIn law' bIQ qegh tIn rap/nIb, I'd use it. But,
> MO has never used such a construction, right?
>
> I await your way of expressing "just as --------- as".
>
> peHruS
>
The one thing Okrand has expressed to us for this would be
something like:
tIn 'unlIj. bIQ qegh rur.
Other inventive castings are available:
'unlIj tebmeH bIQ qegh taS poQlu'.
vay' ngaSlaHmeH rap qegh 'unlIj je.
charghwI'