chabal tetlh submission

surplus

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Current version · May 3, 2022 6:15 pm

an economic situation in which supply exceeds demand

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  1. Perhaps use 'Iq – be too much, be too many to describe the thing with is in surplus.
    pu'Huch 'Iq vIghajmo' vIngevlaHbe' – Because I have a surplus of phaser pistols, I can't sell them.

    1. If we had a word for an economic "market" in the abstract, I might support {'Iq}. But there's no convenient way of distinguishing its scope. This kind of surplus makes a statement about the state of market-forces. A merchant might have too many phaser pistols because his warehouse is already full!

      Well we already have {reDyev} for a "shortage", so a noun for its opposite would be consistent.

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