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Re: *muSHa'* yImuSHa'!



: Considering how {-Ha'} works, can you muSHa' anything if you haven't 
: muSed it first?
: 
: QInteS

Consider the idiom:

  pollaH pagh polHa'laH 
  (one) can either keep it or discard it (KGT p.116)

meaning "the matter is unimportant" or "it does not make any difference"
or, in colloquial American, "I can either take it or leave it".  {pol}
means "keep" or "save", the thought apparently being not merely to have
something in your possession (i.e. {ghaj} "have, possess"), but rather to
keep or maintain it there.

  nuqDaq yuch Dapol?
  Where do you keep the chocolate? TKD 

OTOH {polHa'} "discard" is the opposite of this: not to retain but rather
to rid yourself of something you have.  Can you only discard things you've
previously kept?  What about choosing not to keep it in the first place?


-- 
Voragh                       
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 



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