tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jan 14 20:48:32 1998
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Re: Macro and micro
- From: TPO <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Macro and micro
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 23:48:51 -0500
>Just what is it about those seductive suffixes -Hom and -'a' that make
>people want to abandon mach and tIn?
>
>Voragh
-'a' and -Hom don't necessarily mean the same as big and small; but many
times are translated as such.
De'wI' = computer
De'wI'Hom could possibly mean something more simple, like a calculator.
At the same time, this calculator could be bigger than the computer,
containing the quality of both -Hom and tIn.
A high tech, wopper, super computer, a De'wI''a', could be made smaller than
the calculator. It could be a De'wI''a' mach.
loD = man
loDHom = boy
usually a boy is smaller than a man. But imagine Andre' the Giant in his
youth, still a boy, over five feet tall. He meets a man, a midget, standing
only four feet tall. Andre' is a loDHom tIn.
pIn and pIn'a'. But a pIn'a' is not necessarily bigger.
veng [city] and vengHom [village]. A vengHom could be similar to a veng
mach, but in my mind they are different.
DloraH
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