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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: rap
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kechpaja)
Wed May 24 16:22:51 2017
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Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 23:22:36 +0300
From: kechpaja <kechpaja@comcast.net>
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On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 01:56:24PM +0000, Steven Boozer wrote:
> Voragh wrote:
> >> pIm be the same (v)
>
> Darn editor! That should of course be:
>
> rap be the same (v)
> pIm be different (v)
>
> SapIr:
> > muj mu'tlheghvam. {to be the same} 'oH {rap}'e'. {rap} ghol 'oH {pIm}'e'.
> > (Do we have a word for "opposite" yet? I don't think it's in my TKD)
>
> AFAIK no, though I like your figurative use of {ghol} "opponent, adversary". Tor the quality perhaps {pImqu'} "be very different" or even *{nIbHa'} "be un-identical".
{nIbHa'} sounds like a good choice to me, or perhaps {rapHa'}. {pImqu'}
doesn't work for me, since opposites often *aren't* actually all that
different from one another, except for the one attribute in which they
are, well, opposite.
- SapIr
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