[tlhIngan Hol] lawn mower

De'vID de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com
Wed Jul 27 01:07:01 PDT 2016


On 27 July 2016 at 08:06, Rhona Fenwick <qeslagh at hotmail.com> wrote:
> For that reason, I think {magh chIpwI'} is better for "lawn mower". (There's
> another, completely subjective reason. I grew up watching my uncle cut turf,
> which involves not trimming the grass, but cutting out entire sections of a
> mat of grass, with sod still attached. The machine that does that, I would
> immediately describe as a {magh pe'wI'}, and describing a lawn mower with
> the same term feels just incorrect.)

Does no one think of it as a {yobwI'}?

Also, now I wonder how {Qotmagh} got his name.

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De'vID



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