tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Nov 24 11:56:49 1996
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Re: bomlut = opera
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: bomlut = opera
- Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:56:46 -0500 (EST)
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (message from DloraH on Sat,23 Nov 1996 00:02:32 -0800)
>Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 00:02:32 -0800
>From: DloraH <[email protected]>
>what would you call bomlutHom?
Wrong question.
Words don't have simple trabslations between languages. A "bomlut" is
whatever it is, and therefore a "bomlutHom" is a smaller or lesser one, and
a "bomlut'a'" is a greater or larger or more important one. You can drive
yourself nuts trying to come up with THE English equivalent of this or that
word, but it's an exercise in futility. So much depends on context, etc.
And it also presupposes that words have a one-to-one mapping among
languages, and that just plain ain't so.
~mark