tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Apr 23 18:35:46 2004
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a little bit pregnant?
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: a little bit pregnant?
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 21:35:00 EDT
In a message dated 2004-04-23 9:18:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
> "a little bit pregnant"
this is a bad example, i think. of course, a woman is either pregnant or
not, so there is no middle ground, no "little bit". or is there? the way it is
used is that she has been pregnant for only a short time, or that her
pregnancy isn't very obvious, in which case it makes perfect sense.
and there are probably many other similar situations where an apparently
binary possibility can be interpreted as the whole range between the opposite
extremes. and this may have application in klingon, too.
lay'tel SIvten
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