tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue May 02 17:12:43 1995
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"size" and -ghach
- From: [email protected] (David Barron)
- Subject: "size" and -ghach
- Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 17:12:37 -0700
At 05:06 PM 5/2/95 -0400, Alan Anderson wrote:
>> For example, "His house is as big as a shuttlecraft."
>
>Earlier, I suggested:
>> tIntaHghach 'ar ghaj juHDaj? tIntaHghach'e' ghajbogh lupDujHom!
>
>I now see a more concise way, which happens to come close to the phrasing of
>the original, although that was not the goal:
>
>{tIntaHghach'e' ghajbogh lupDujHom ghaj juHDaj}
>"His home has the bigness which a shuttlecraft has
Here is an example where I may have to yield to the
"need to use -ghach" argument. There is no good word
for "size" yet and tIntaHghach seems to do the job.
I challange anyone to make a coherant translation of the
above sentence without useing -ghach.
David Barron
>
>-- ghunchu'wI'
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