tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jan 22 13:57:12 2003
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Re: tlhegh
nuQum Quvar:
>ghItlh Voragh:
> > By "empty line" do you mean a blank line, separating two blocs of text?
>
>Right.
>
> > 'The usual term for "proverb" is {vIttlhegh}, literally "truth rope" and
> > formed, no doubt, by analogy with {mu'tlhegh} "sentence" or, literally,
> > "word rope".' (Okrand, HolQeD 5.1)
>
>Yes, both times this is "a rope of something", an idiom (or metaphor?)
>describing words attached to each other like the elements of a chain. But
>a blank line is a rope of nothing, it's just space.
Just like a "null prefix" - *{pagh moHaq}? - on a third person verb,
qar'a'? ;-) You can think of an empty line as a rope of blank spaces or a
string of invisible characters.
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- that's
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