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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] rup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Felix Malmenbeck)
Wed Nov 11 09:48:29 2015
From: Felix Malmenbeck <felixm@kth.se>
To: SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 14:48:10 +0000
In-Reply-To: <56434BD4.7090809@trimboli.name>
Cc: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@kli.org
Fair enough, but once metaphor comes into the picture, pretty much anything is possible; you can kill a painting, speak a frog, and be healthy as a lamp post.
Metaphors which happen to line up with English expressions (or some other Earth language that the speaker/writer knows) aren't necessarily incorrect, but at least for me they send up little warning flags.
> 11 nov 2015 kl. 15:09 skrev SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name>:
>
>> On 11/11/2015 8:40 AM, Felix Malmenbeck wrote:
>> Hmm, I'm uncertain what you mean by "<<tax>> isn't within brackets". Are
>> you looking at a digital version of the book?
>>
>> When two different definitions are given for a word, it's often to help
>> avoid ambiguity. As you say, the English word "tax" is ambiguous, but
>> the addition of "fine" makes it clear which meaning of the word is intended.
>>
>> It would be very surprising if the Klingon word had the same ambiguity,
>> so I'd advise you to stick to the "evil king" use of the word.
>
> On the other hand, "tax, impose a burden on" is really just another sense of the meaning of "tax, fine." I don't think its inconceivable to use {rup} in this sense, though it might be considered metaphorical.
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