tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 29 19:53:27 1996
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Re: Yet another newbie.
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Yet another newbie.
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 23:54:32 -0500
~mark writes:
>>>wa'SaDlogh Heghtah nuch
>>>
>>>I hope means "A coward dies a thousand deaths."
>
>Hrm. I think I like "Hegh" better. Somehow dying many times discretely
>and the continuous suffix don't quite work together for me.
I definitely like the poetic image of a "non-discrete" death. Simply to
"die" repeatedly isn't necessarily all that bad (except maybe for that
last time :-)), but to experience death *continuously* many times sounds
a lot like what a coward (or someone speaking in front of a group :-))
must feel.
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj