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mayqel qunenoS mihkoun at gmail.com
Thu Aug 24 08:46:18 PDT 2017


qurgh:
> That's pretty much what using "ridiculous" as an exclamation > is doing.
Without any more context from qunnoq I don't know > if he wants to use it
as an adjective or in as an exclamation
> like this:
> I ate 20 pies!
> That's ridiculous/stupid/silly/nonsense/etc

To confess my sin, the need to say "that's ridiculous", always arises, when
I need to reply to someone who says "don't ask for that word ! klingons
would never use it".

In times like these, I feel the need to say "that's (your argument) is
ridiculous".

qunnoq


On Aug 24, 2017 6:05 PM, "qurgh lungqIj" <qurgh at wizage.net> wrote:

> On Aug 24, 2017 10:44 AM, "Lieven" <levinius at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Am 24.08.2017 um 16:39 schrieb qurgh lungqIj:
>
>> There's a whole section on how to say "That's stupid" as in "that's
>> ridiculous".
>>
>
> I checked that one and noticed that not everything you my call ridiculous
> really is also silly. Silly has a negative connotation, but there are
> ridiculous things that are still very good.
>
>
>
> Ridiculous has as much a negative connotation as silly does. There are
> good silly things (that's a silly little song I love) and bad ridiculous
> things (it's ridiculous that they made us wait in that 100 degree room for
> 5 hours, someone almost died!).
>
> The text does explain how to tell someone one's opinion on what they just
> said though. That's pretty much what using "ridiculous" as an exclamation
> is doing. Without any more context from qunnoq I don't know if he wants to
> use it as an adjective or in as an exclamation like this:
>
> I ate 20 pies!
> That's ridiculous/stupid/silly/nonsense/etc
>
> All those can be covered by {Dap} and/or {chatlh}.
>
> qurgh
>
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