tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Aug 22 23:25:54 1994
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Re: open can of worms
???ÛÛ^Ev??Ë\???On Tue, 23 Aug 1994, Nick NICHOLAS wrote:
>
> 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
_i»???Ã_??ë\Ý?ÔÞ}ó??YØû??^YÓ^??ë??a+ÚmVX?> =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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