[87722] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Except, Spite, despite, apart from
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Tue Jan 26 16:03:47 2010
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:00:56 -0500
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
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On 1/26/2010 3:20 PM, Steven Boozer wrote:
> 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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