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Re: Except, Spite, despite, apart from

David Trimboli ([email protected])

From: David Trimboli <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Except, Spite, despite, apart from
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:00:56 -0500
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On 1/26/2010 3:20 PM, Steven Boozer wrote:
> Fiat Knox:
>> A further reflection: "hate, detest (v)" is muS. This, for me, yielded
>> the sentence
>>
>>   qabDaj muSmo' ghIchDaj teqta'
>>
>> - He cut off his nose to spite (because he hated) his face.
> Hmm... {teq} "remove".  Try {poDmoH} "clip" (not the same as {chip} "cut, trim [hair]").  *{pe'chu'} "perfectly cut, cut through, etc." could also work.
>
>
>> Until someone tells me what the noun for hatred, detestation (spite?) is,
>> I guess I'll have to continue to work around it like this.
>
> There's no simple noun, so I would go the {-ghach} route:  *{muStaHghach}, *{muSqu'ghach}, etc.

What?! You hate my mustache?! You're going to cut it off?!

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