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Re: Except, Spite, despite, apart from

Fiat Knox ([email protected])



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

loch 'oH'a' Dochvetlh'e'? Huy' wejDIch DachenmoH 'e' vIHarpu'!




> > 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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