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Re: DCKL translation problems: {rup}

Alan Anderson ([email protected])

• From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: DCKL translation problems: {rup}
• Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:32:19 -0500
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ja' Quvar:
>{rup} defined as "fine, tax"
>
>- a penalty one pays is a fine, but not a tax
>- a tax is a charge imposed by authority
>- or: a sum levied on the members of an organization to defray its expenses
>- or: a heavy charge or demand exacted [I think it's not this one, it
>doesn't contain "fine"]

It looks like the common idea is a payment demanded by a group with power.
I'd accept "dues" and "tariffs" as fitting the concept too.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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