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[tlhIngan-Hol] Re: {-'a'}, {-Hom}, and size

David Trimboli ([email protected])

• From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
• Subject: [tlhIngan-Hol] Re: {-'a'}, {-Hom}, and size
• Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 23:28:27 -0500
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From: <[email protected]>
> For example, I would be comfortable calling a portable television a
"TV"Hom, and the only
> essential difference is that it is small enough to carry.  However, I
wouldn't be comfortable
> calling some other small TV a "TV"Hom, and again, the only essential
difference is size.
> Perhaps the fact that it can be carried moves it into another semantic
slot, so to speak.
>
> This seems similar to the phenomenon of "mini-" in English.  Sometimes the
size difference
> is enough to qualify for the "mini-" prefix, and sometimes it is not, and
I would have no idea
> how to quantify the necessary difference (i.e., to explain to a non-native
speaker).  I think the
> "small" meaning of {-Hom} has a partial overlap with English "mini-".

Those are interesting choices.

TV-Hom
more or less a monitor-Hom.
=  jIHHom

Mini makes me think of Mini-Me.
jIHHom.




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