tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Mar 31 13:11:14 1997
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Re: Opinions
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>Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 08:42:30 -0800 (PST)
>From: "Marc Paige"<[email protected]>
>
>What does the following noun chain express to you:
>
>bIQ'a' lam qach'a'
When I first saw it, I read "lom" instead of "lam", and was thinking "Sea
corpse great-building" and has this image of an underwater morgue. Then I
realized it was "sea dirt great-building" and started thinking of some
underwater/seaside huge complex for processing soil, or something.
Of course, once I saw someone's suggestion of "sand castle" it was ruined
for me. That's what I mean by the hindsight-word effect. Once it's
explained, it is completely logical and you think there's no possible way
to think anything else. But there is, and I didn't think "sand castle"
until I saw it proposed.
~mark
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