[93916] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: chIp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Fri Jun 29 09:42:34 2012
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:42:21 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CAFK8js3xNr+cZiLwiCT+U4cvz2xcAanif7dMu5g1AS4c2fVAFg@mail.gmail.com>
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ghunchu'wI':
> It might not even be stretching the meaning at all. {chIp} doesn't
> actually *include* the hair idea. That's given in parentheses as an
> example of the kind of object it can have, not as the only one
> possible. I'd accept that {chIp} alone does *imply* hair, based on the
> {ghuS} example, but I wouldn't expect any verb to have its object
> restricted to a specific noun.
I agree. If it were, the definition would have been "cut hair" not "cut (hair)". I think Okrand added "(hair)" to distinguish {chIp} from the more general verb {pe'} "cut".
A better question is: How do {chip} and {poD} "be clipped"/{poDmoH} "clip" differ? The former has never been used in a sentence AFAIK and the latter only appears in {tlhIngan Hol poD} "Clipped Klingon" and {Hol poD} "clipped language". Does one use {poDmoH} for, say, clipping one's nails or snipping off a single rose from the stem? Can we say ?{lav chIp} for trimming shrubbery to a uniform height? Would *{poDmoHwI'} work for "clippers, secateurs" but ?{lav chIpwI'} for "hedge trimmers"?
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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