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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] qIHpu'ghach wa'DIch: 'ay' cha'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Mon Jan 30 16:37:55 2012
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:37:33 -0500
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
To: tlhIngan Hol <tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org>
In-Reply-To: <F52986192E9FE346B0B7EF3D6F98E87711C17036@EXDB3.ug.kth.se>
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On 1/30/2012 4:27 PM, Felix Malmenbeck wrote:
>
> Good point, Robyn and David; -'a' and -Hom tend to be used when
> something is so different from what the stem describes that the stem
> nearly becomes inaccurate (but not quite). Otherwise, as David
> suggest, one can use adjectives. Perhaps, then, a Borg Cube truly is
> a borgh ngogh'a', since it's not a brick or lump at all. [I still
> think the -'a' may be superfluous, though.]
First, let me admit that I haven't been following this translation.
I don't think {ngogh} is the right word at all. I guess that it refers
to a solid material, or at least a relatively homogeneous one. I don't
have all uses of it in front of me, so if there is something that
contradicts this, speak up. A Borg ship is a machine, not a brick. You
might say it "resembles a brick" (ngogh rur), but that's not its name.
They call it a "Borg cube" in reference to its
doesn't-look-like-a-spaceship shape. Lacking a known word for "cube,"
you lose the whole reason to call it a "Borg cube" at all. Best to leave
it as {borgh Duj}.
Note that the Borg sphere ship can be called a {borgh moQ} with no problem.
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SuStel
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