tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Aug 22 01:15:43 1994
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Re: open can of worms
- From: [email protected] (Nick NICHOLAS)
- Subject: Re: open can of worms
- Date: Tue, 23 Aug 1994 02:53:07 +1000 (EST)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "William H. Martin" at Aug 22, 94 10:17:00 am
Hu'tegh! nuq ja' William H. Martin jay'?
=> 1) Is there or was there ever a liquid equivalent to "feed", and if not, how
=> come?
=For THAT matter, what equivalent exists in English? "Feed him
=and give him something to drink!"? "Feed him and make him
=drink!"? "Feed him, and let him drink!"? While I do see this as
=an omission in Klingon, I think English has the same omission.
=I also know of no single verb for this in French or sign
=language. Okay, polyglots, there's a challenge for you. What
=languages have a liquid equivalent to the verb "feed"?
Greek potizo, for starters. (Cheating there, since it's my parents' language
:) . I don't see what's wrong with tlhutlhmoH. Why a single stem for je'?
I suppose because, culturally, food is deemed more important as sustenance
than liquid. After all, nursing mothers are deemed to feed...
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