Re: Okrand on {rur} "resemble"

["K'ryntes" <yoshi@surfshop.net>]

You know, if I had known MO was gonna answer me, I would have asked
something better than how to call someone a "bug face".  :)

K'ryntes

Steven Boozer wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Marc Okrand <mokrand@erols.com>
> Newsgroups: startrek.klingon
> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 00:03:46 -0500
> Subject: Re: ghew qab
>
> Matt Johnson wrote...
> >Pam Felton <yoshi@surfshop.net> 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]").
>
> --
> Voragh
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons