tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 09 10:43:40 1998
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Re: equally beautiful
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: equally beautiful
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 11:27:58 -0500
I get the feeling peHruS is disguising this as KLBC to try to "catch" Qov.
I feel truly compelled to answer this, because I think peHruS is treading on
very thin ice here. Please forgive me if I have overstepped the boundaries
of protocol. (Perhaps by the time I upload this to my e-mail account, Qov
will already have responded . . .)
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, February 09, 1998 3:00 AM
Subject: KLBC: equally beautiful
>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.
wa' tlho'ren muq 'unlIj. wa' tlho'ren muq bIQ bal. (A {qegh} is used to
store liquor, not water.)
or
wa' tlho'ren muq bIQ bal; rur 'unlIj.
(A {tho'ren}, Okrand tells us, is around a liter or so.)
Oh, you don't actually want to specify exactly how big they are? (A Klingon
may be inaccurate, but . . .) Hey, I can deal with that.
tIn bIQ bal; rur 'unlIj.
or
mach bIQ bal; rur 'unlIj.
What, you don't actually have any idea how big they are, but they hold the
same amount? Shucks, no problem!
bIQ balvo' 'unlIjDaq bIQ qanglu'chugh teblu'chu'.
Anything else?
>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?
Absolutely right. He has never used anything like it. Let's just sweep
that under the rug, shall we?
>I await your way of expressing "just as --------- as".
Alas, there is no such beastie. You've got to construct a new sentence each
and every time. The universe can be a hard place.
SuStel
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