tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jan 21 22:23:05 1999
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RE: KLBC: *London*Daq lengwIj
ja' Voragh:
>Why avoid {mach} "be small" and {tIn} "be big, be large" in favor of {-Hom}
>and
>{-'a'}? This is not a criticism, just curious -- beginners always want to use
>the Type 1 suffixes for *every* size reference, which is not what they're for
>at all.
I think it *should* be a criticism. {-Hom} and {-'a'} aren't supposed to
indicate a quantitative difference; they're for a *qualitative* difference.
A {SuvwI''a'} isn't necessarily bigger than a mere {SuvwI'} -- he's just a
little more warrior-like, a little more important. A {QelHom} can refer
to a medical intern; it doesn't imply anything about how big he or she is.
-- ghunchu'wI'