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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: mach

Will Martin ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']

<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I suspect that the canon samples we get are warped toward the use of {-Hom} instead of {mach} simply because most of the canon is focused on WORDS instead of lengthy expressions of meaning, as would be the norm if we sampled Klingon general communication instead of canon examples.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">{-Hom} doesn’t really mean the same thing as {mach}. The latter simply refers to size. The former is a designate added to an existing noun in order to indicate that this is a less significant variation of the root noun. A creek is indeed smaller than a river, but it is also less significant. Think about the difference between a creek and a small river. Technically, they are the same, because both are smaller than a normal river, but when you think of the terms, you think of a small river as being somewhat smaller than an average river, but hey, IT’S STILL A RIVER.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Meanwhile, a creek is not really just a smaller-than-typical river. It’s a creek.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Klingon wouldn’t likely have a separate word for creek. They’d just call it a {bIQtIqHom}.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">An emissary can be physically larger than an ambassador, but we’d still call the emissary {Duy} and we’d call the ambassador {Duy’a’}. It’s not all about size.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Unless it’s a knife...</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 31, 2015, at 10:18 AM, Steven Boozer &lt;<a href="mailto:[email protected]"; class="">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, August 31, 2015<br class=""><br class="">Klingon word: mach<br class="">Part of speech: verb<br class="">Definition: be small<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">bImach <br class="">You are small. KLS<br class=""><br class="">mach SuvwI'pu' <br class="">Warriors are small. KGT<br class=""><br class="">qIvo'rIt may'Duj mach <br class="">smaller version of a K'vort class cruiser. KBoP<br class=""><br class="">{mach} is used surprisingly little in Klingon; most prefer the type 1 suffix {-Hom}.<br class=""><br class="">SEE ALSO:<br class="">QIv <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">	</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">	</span>be inferior (v)<br class="">run &nbsp;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">	</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">	</span>be short (in stature) (v)<br class="">-Hom<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">	</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">	</span>diminutive suffix (N1): minor, little, small<br class=""><br class="">tIn<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">	</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">	</span>be big, be large (v)<br class="">nIv<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">	</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">	</span>be superior (v)<br class="">woch <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">	</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">	</span>be tall (v)<br class="">Dun<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">	</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">	</span>be great (v)<br class="">-'a'<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">	</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">	</span>augmentive suffix (N1): big, giant, major, great<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">--<br class="">Voragh<br class="">Ca'Non Master of the Klingons<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Tlhingan-hol mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:[email protected]"; class="">[email protected]</a><br class="">http://mail.kli.org/mailman/listinfo/tlhingan-hol<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>
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