tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Mar 19 16:00:39 1997
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RE: tlhab ja'qu'ghach
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: tlhab ja'qu'ghach
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 97 23:28:44 UT
jatlh qoror:
> Message text written by "David Trimboli"
> > And as for my own, "minor nothing" is
> pretty nonsensical.<
>
> You know, "minor" isn't the only translation of -Hom. --qoror
Why, yes, I do know that. But which translation I choose to represent the
word is irrelevant. {-Hom} means the noun it is attached to is smaller, less
important, or less powerful that the noun without the suffix. None of the
following make any sense to me:
Nothing which is smaller than normal nothing.
Nothing which is less important than normal nothing.
Nothing which is less powerful than normal nothing.
It's not the *translation* I do not accept, it is the *concept*.
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SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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