[tlhIngan Hol] qep'a' cha'maH wej mu' chu' - New Words

[mayqel qunenoS]

> Though I'd be interested to know how many
> Earth languages use that kind of figure of speech

'oH lo'bej 'elaDya' Hol..


On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 5:48 PM, nIqolay Q <niqolay0 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 8:36 AM, Rhona Fenwick <qeslagh at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> Again, you're running into an issue of sense there. {tap} probably can be
>> used for "crush", but only in the sense of crushing garlic cloves, or grapes
>> for wine, or stones for mineral pigment, or that sort of thing. To "crush"
>> one's enemies is an idiom in English: it doesn't mean you literally take
>> your enemies and physically squash them between two objects, it means you
>> rout them, you conquer them resoundingly, you {jeychu'} them. You may say "I
>> crushed my enemy", and a Klingon may say {jaghwI' vItapta'}, but the
>> likelihood is that they mean something different from what you do, and
>> something far more gruesome.
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> Using "crush" (or other verbs of literal physical destruction) to mean
> "thoroughly defeat" seems like a pretty straightforward metaphor. (Though
> I'd be interested to know how many Earth languages use that kind of figure
> of speech.)
>
> Also according to boQwI', there's a canon citation for that meaning: {yIntaH
> qIrq 'e' vIneH. DaSwIj bIngDaq latlhpu' vItap.} "Kirk I want alive. The rest
> I will grind beneath my boot." (Star Trek Constellations p.232)
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>> QeS 'utlh
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