tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 03 17:55:11 2002
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Re: Philosophy: QubwI' *HeraqlIt
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- Subject: Re: Philosophy: QubwI' *HeraqlIt
- Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 18:52:59 -0400
> >/vIHtaH Hoch/ is simply "everything is continuously moving"; not necessarily
> >going anywhere, but there is motion of some kind.
> >
> >Anyway, the english of the greek is just as misleading.
> Yes. But what I would like to know if that is really like that in greek.
> Does the expression "panta rhei"
> really talk about things that "move", or more generally things changing?
>
"rhei" basically means "to flow", as in, well, "diarrhea" (literally, "a flowing
through"). Offhand, I can't recall a Klingon verb for "flow".
-- ter'eS