tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Apr 13 06:11:19 2006
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Re: mangpu' or negh?
- From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: mangpu' or negh?
- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 23:11:04 +1000
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ghItlhpu' Shane MiQogh, ja':
>Anyone with half a brain would know that dishate means love
jang lay'tel SIvten, ja':
>I have to disagree. "Dishate" may mean something, but "love" was *not* on
>the list.
wa' DoS wIqIp, lay'SIv. Just because we can interpret "dis-hate" as a word
doesn't mean any of us would ever use it, or that we even agree on its
sense. "Dis-" is usually used with verbs that are dynamic and reversible in
sense, anyway: "disassemble", "disaggregate", "disconnect". "Dislove",
"disuse" (as a verb) and "disexist" are all bizarre at best, and I would
argue they're not proper English (despite the fact that we know what they
all might mean).
To take another example from pop culture: "Me fail English? That's
unpossible!" We know very well what "unpossible" means - but it's not good
English.
QeS 'utlh
tlhIngan Hol yejHaD pabpo' / Grammarian of the Klingon Language Institute
not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' ngo' je
(Old roads and old friends will never deceive you)
- Ubykh Hol vIttlhegh
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