tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jan 09 12:08:14 1999
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Okrand on {rur} "resemble"
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Okrand on {rur} "resemble"
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 14:08:03 -0600 (CST)
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From: Marc Okrand <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: startrek.klingon
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 00:03:46 -0500
Subject: Re: ghew qab
Matt Johnson wrote...
>Pam Felton <[email protected]> writes
>> And is there a way to say "like"? Such as, "He looks
>> like a bug."
>
> looks like =~ resemble? 'rur'
>
> ghew rur. "He resembles a bug."
No reason for me to add anything here! This is a good
illustration of the use of the verb <rur> "resemble."
The word <rur> also comes up a lot in Klingon similes, such
as <'up; yIH rur> "(it's) disgusting as a tribble,"
literally "it's disgusting; it resembles a tribble" (<'up>
"it is disgusting," <yIH> "tribble," <rur> "it resembles
[it]").
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons