[tlhIngan Hol] When better is missing go with preferable

[mayqel qunenoS]

lieven:
> Maybe one thing is surely better than another, but I may prefer the worse anyway.

Perhaps, this will suck us into an infinite loop, but if we
acknowledge something as being better then wouldn't this be by
definition preferable ?

And if we acknowledge something as being preferable, then again isn't
that by definition better ?

And even if we acknowledge one thing as being better, still preferring
the worst (thus the latter being preferable), then for the person who
makes the choice, then the preferable -for him- isn't the better even
if its worst ?

This seems like a temporal loop ! Or a linguistic one if you prefer ! hehehe

qunnoq

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 11:44 AM, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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