[99083] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] puS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven)
Sat Jun 28 10:58:29 2014
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 16:58:14 +0200
From: Lieven <levinius@gmx.de>
To: "tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org"
<tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org>
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Am 28.06.2014 05:02, schrieb Brad Wilson:
> The definition for {puS} in TKD has always bothered me - be few, be
> several, be a handful.
> To me a handful is a few, but several is more than that. I wouldn't put
> these together in meaning.
> I usually just ignore the "several" entry and use {law'} instead for
> several/many.
> How do others reconcile this?
I never had a problem with that, but I also did not focus on the
definition to closely.
{puS} means "more than one", i.e. "several", but less than the opposite
of {law'}, which really means "many", or "a lot".
So, for a Klingon {jagh puS} is no threat, although a terran might be
frightened about the same amount of "several" warriors. :-)
If it helps for you to just omit the definition "several", I would
suggest you do that.
{puS} = "few"
{law'} = "much"
--
Lieven L. Litaer
aka Quvar valer 'utlh
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