tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Apr 28 12:49:24 1999
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Blindness
- From: Robyn Stewart <[email protected]>
- Subject: Blindness
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:49:27 -0700 (PDT)
it was asked:
> 3) Do we know a word for *blind* (adj and v) other than something
> like <leghbe'laHbogh> and <leghbe'laHmoH>? Would a blind person then
> be <leghbe'laHbogh ghot> and/or <leghbe'laHbogh vay'> (one who is
> blind)? As an alternative, is there a way of saying *sightless* or
> *unseeing*?
A blind person/animal could be /leghlaHbe'wI'/ "one who cannot see."
The following has been mentioned, but not explained, and it's an
important point, so I'm going to belabour it.
/leghbe'laH/ means "able to not see."
/leghlaHbe'/ means "not able to see."
See the difference?
You could even have /leghbe'laHbe'/ "not able to not see," perhaps to
describe being forced to look at unwanted sights. It might be
translatable as "couldn't avoid seeing" or even "can't miss it."
jatlhbe'laH - can refrain from speaking
jatlhlaHbe' - can't speak
jatlhbe'laHbe' - can't refrain from speaking
jatlhbe'laHbe'wI' - one who can't refrain from speaking
-- jatlhbe'laHbe'bogh be'
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Qov - pab 'utlh
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