tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 03 11:01:23 2002
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Re: Difference between {pI'} and {ror}?
maHvatlh wrote:
>What is the difference in meaning between {pI'} and {ror}? They're both
>translated as "be fat" in TKD but are they really synonymous or do they
>mean different things?
We don't know. Okrand hasn't explained or used either of them in a sentence.
Our only other piece of information - and it's VERY indirect - is {runpI'}
"teapot" in KGT, which is one of Okrand's jokes, deriving from the
children's song:
I'm a little teapot,
short {run} and stout {pI'}.
Here is my handle.
Here is my spout.
Now, whether this means anything is unknown. E.g.: Is {pI'} somewhat less
fat - or offensive? - than {ror}? Cf. English "stout/chubby/plump" vs.
"fat". Or... is one used for things (cf. {ngo'} "be old [not new]") and
the other for people ({qan} "be old [not young]")? At the moment, we have
no idea.
To complicate things, AFAIK there's only one word for "be thin" {lang} and
the apparently unrelated noun {tlhagh} "fat, animal fat" - two more puns
(sound them out!).
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons