tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 05 07:09:41 1999
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RE: KLBC qaDHom
peHruSvo':
> In a message dated 7/3/1999 7:25:32 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
> [email protected] writes:
>
> << ja' peHruS:
> >DIvI' Hol jatlhlu'DI' qaq "I buy a game." 'ach pIm
> tlhIngan Hol 'e' vImum.
>
> nuqjatlh? pIm tlhIngan Hol chay' nujlIjDaq 'e' Dalan? qayajbe'.
> meqlIj DaQIjbe'qa'taH. qatlh <Quj vIje'> Dapar jay'? yImaqQo' neH.
> >>
> =-=================
> {mum} is not restricted to putting something into one's mouth to get a
> sensation.
Okay, this explains your original usage, but not why you believe this. {mum} is defined
as "taste, sense flavor." The discussion of this word in KGT reads:
'The verb {mum} ("taste") means "sense flavors." To say {Soj vImum} ("I taste my food")
is to say "I perceive a flavor or flavors," not "I try out the food to see if it is
prepared properly.' [KGT p. 86]
This is why I think {mum} refers to sensing the flavor of food. Can you explain why you
think it can refer to sensing something else, like differences between languages, as
you've used it above?
> pIj bImaqqu'. jImaqqangtaH, 'ej jIQIjqangchu'.
wej lo'vam DaQIjmo' bIQIjqangbe'law'. Just because you say you're willing to explain
doesn't mean you've explained.
> peHruS
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