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Re: }} "like" question



On Fri, 29 Sep 1995, Jim Boniface wrote:

>  I've been looking through TKD for about 20 minutes now and I can't seem to 
> find where I would place  " parHa'  " in a sentence, I'm attempting to say 
> "you play like a terran", and I THINK it would go " tera'ngan parHa' DareH", 
> so in a nutshell, help please!

There are (at least) two different senses of "like" in English, but the 
Klingon /parHa'/ only acounts for one of them.  It's *not* the sense 
you're looking for here; it's the sense in "I like chocolate."

We don't have a device for simile in Klingon, but you can try various 
circumlocutions, such as

bIreHDI' tera'ngan Darur
 
> Jim
> [email protected]

--Holtej

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