tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jan 22 11:38:49 2003
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Re: tlhegh
ghItlh Voragh:
>By "empty line" do you mean a blank line, separating two blocs of text?
Right.
> The usual term for "proverb" is {vIttlhegh}, literally "truth rope" and
>formed,
> no doubt, by analogy with {mu'tlhegh} "sentence" or, literally, "word rope".
> (Okrand, HolQeD 5.1)
Yes, both times this is "a rope of something", an idiom (or metaphor?) describing words attached to each other like the elements of a chain.
But a blank line is a rope of nothing, it's just space.
I though that the definition for {tlhegh}"line, rope" means "line like a rope, instead of a line drawn by a pen" (?)
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