tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Sep 01 15:57:14 1995
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Re[4]: }} jIjot 'ej jIQuch
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- Subject: Re[4]: }} jIjot 'ej jIQuch
- Date: Fri, 01 Sep 95 14:57:14 EST
On Fri, 1 Sep 1995 charghwI' wrote:
>> (Please realize that I'm playing Devil's advocate here.)
IOW I understand that <Hot> is for physical touching, I'm just throwing in other
ideas.
>> "To touch the sky."
>
>Just exactly what is this supposed to mean in English? I can't
>translate that which I do not understand.
Okay. (Well at least it's better than what I had originally had,"to touch the
face of god.") When you were a kid did you ever try to reach up and touch the
sky? It's used more as a euphemism these days. People took up flying so they
could "touch the sky". I wish I could think of a source. (I vaguely remember
that the poem Reagan read after the Challenger tragedy, said something along
those lines.) And yes I know that no self respecting Klingon would use a
euphemism.
>> If the object is intangible then why not use <Hot>?
>Well, since the term tangibility refers to the potential of
>being touched, I can see how the verb meaning to touch could be
>considered inappropriate if tangibility is not present. Just
>because English allows this perversion doesn't mean Klingon
>should be similarly corrupted.
Perversion, hunh?:-)
>> If not, Troi is going to have one heck of a hard time visiting Worf's family.
>
>One never suggested that this would not be the case.
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r'Hul