[tlhIngan Hol] When better is missing go with preferable

[mayqel qunenoS]

lieven:
> since {qaq} was introduced in the addendum of TKD,
> I suppose it was the actor's mispronunciation of {QaQ}

lucky for us !

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Lieven <levinius at gmx.de> wrote:
> Am 19.08.2016 um 08:52 schrieb mayqel qunenoS:
>>
>> I was trying to find a way to express "better" by using a single word
>> ; not through the use of suffixes and context, or the {law'/puS}
>> construction.
>>
>> for example "my phone is better" ; not "my phone is better than yours".
>
>
> Well, then your problem is not the word "better" but any superlative.
>
> There never is a single word (AFAIK) "larger", "smarter", etc.
> All of these have to be expressed using the law'/puS.
>
> If we go into detail, chapter TKD 6.6 has skipped the "one is x-er"
> expression, only giving examples for "A is x-er than B" (comparing TWO
> things) and then "A is the x-est of all".
> What it does explicitely say,  is that that "the verb of quality must be
> said twice".
>
> By the way, you only happen to be fortunate having the verb {qaq} working in
> your question, but it's still not the same as "better". Maybe one thing is
> sureley better than another, but I may prefer the worse anyway.
>
> The word "better" in the translations of "it is better to die standing..."
> is confusing and not correct, as it is only a person's opinion: General
> Chang "prefers" to die fighting.
>
> PS: since {qaq} was introduced in the addendum of TKD, I suppose it was the
> actor's mispronunciation of {QaQ}.
>
>
>
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