[87723] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Except, Spite, despite, apart from
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fiat Knox)
Tue Jan 26 16:15:27 2010
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:13:19 +0000 (GMT)
From: Fiat Knox <fiat_knox@yahoo.co.uk>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <4B5F5808.4070208@trimboli.name>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
> What?! You hate my mustache?! You're going to cut it off?!
loch 'oH'a' Dochvetlh'e'? Huy' wejDIch DachenmoH 'e' vIHarpu'!
> > 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?!
