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Re: Back scratcher? [2nd attempt]

Terrence Donnelly ([email protected])

• From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Back scratcher? [2nd attempt]
• Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:04:49 -0700 (PDT)
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--- Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:

> As for "itch",
> I think the best we 
> can do is {'oy'} "ache, hurt, be sore" -- {loQ
> 'oy'}:
> 

How about {qotlh} 'to tickle'?  An itch feels to me
like a kind of tickling sensation.

Of course, we have the usual problem of whether
{qotlh} is transitive or intransitive:

?{DubwIj qotlh vay'} "Something tickles my back."
?{qotlh DubwIj} "my back tickles (i.e. has a tickle)"

I'd think the first is more likely, but I've been
wrong before!

-- ter'eS

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