[87720] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: Except, Spite, despite, apart from
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Tue Jan 26 15:25:41 2010
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "'tlhingan-hol@kli.org'" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:20:23 -0600
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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.
--
Voragh
Canon Master of the Klingons
