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Re: KLBC: equally beautiful

From: [email protected] <[email protected]>

>------peHruS is still trying to express
>equivalency of state/quality, not a simile-----
>
>I had already thought about the simile construction.  I like it for the
>concepts it covers.  But, I wish to express that one thing's quality is
just
>as much as another's.

>The column is the same height as that building.
>That is, The column is just as tall as that building, no more, no less.
>It is not similar to that building.  Its height equal to the height of the
>building.

Fine.  If you still do not want to specify exact heights (for some reason of
your own), then say,


tIn tut; rap qachvetlh.

If you believe (without good cause, I assure you) that only {rur} can be
used in this sort of way, say,

tIn tut; qachvetlh rurchu'.

{rurchu'} "resemble exactly" has the meaning you want.

And the similies show us more than just how to make a similie.  It also
shows us that one can say, for instance, {mIgh; molor rur} "evil as Molor,"
and not be talking about have an appearance similar to Molor.  It means that
the *quality*, not the noun, is under scrutiny.

>I am happy with the simile construction.  I now want to compare/equate
stative
>verb qualities more precisely.  Even though it is the idea of a KLI member,
I
>hope MO comes up with the same idea later:  tut jen law' qachvetlh jen nIb.

I sincerely hope that Okrand does NOT decide to say something like this.
Fortunately, it seems clear that he does not plan to.

SuStel
Stardate 98113.2

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