tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jan 28 21:54:25 2012

Back to archive top level

To this year's listing

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]

Re: [Tlhingan-hol] qIHpu'ghach wa'DIch: 'ay' cha'

Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh ([email protected]) 

<html>
<head>
<style><!--
.hmmessage P
{
margin:0px;
padding:0px
}
body.hmmessage
{
font-size: 10pt;
font-family:Tahoma
}
--></style></head>
<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>
jIghItlhpu', jIjatlh:<br>&gt; Borg ngogh'a' [2], <br><div>
&gt; [2] Opinions on {ngogh'a'}?<BR><br><BR>mujang De'vID, jatlh:<br><BR>
&gt; Do you mean on {Borg ngogh'a'} for "Borg cube", or just {ngogh'a'} for "cube"?<BR><br><BR>Yep, on {Borg ngogh'a'} as a translation of "Borg cube".<br><BR><br><BR>
taH:<br><BR>&gt; I don't think "cube" when I read {ngogh'a'}, just a big block (i.e, something with six faces, two perpendicular to each 3-D axis, but not necessarily equal in size).&nbsp; That may be sufficient to express the idea.<BR><br><BR>Awesome. That's more or less exactly what I mean.<br><BR><br><BR>jangpu' loghaD, jatlh:<BR>&gt; I'd argue that Borg ngogh would be sufficient, however; Borg ngogh'a' 
would suggest that it was remarkable even by Borg Cube standards<BR><br><BR>My counter-argument would be that {-'a'} applies only to the word {ngogh}, not the whole phrase, and the {Borg ngogh'a'} certainly is remarkable by the standards of what usually constitutes a {ngogh}. The only canon examples of it to date refer to pillows, loaves of bread, chocolate and building bricks, and the Borg cube beats all of them by a huge margin.<br><BR><br><BR>QeS 'utlh<br><BR></div> 		 	   		  </div></body>
</html>
_______________________________________________
Tlhingan-hol mailing list
[email protected]
http://stodi.digitalkingdom.org/mailman/listinfo/tlhingan-hol

Back to archive top level