[tlhIngan Hol] Expressing exterior

[mayqel qunen'oS]

charghwI':

> I, for one, wonder why you bother with Hur 

> at all


The purpose of this thread was to find a way to express the exterior of an object.


Using "I paint the house", is just an example I selected, which obviously I shouldn't have, because it would raise the question why I don't use reD.


For a house we have reD. But what if I want to describe the exterior surface of an object in general ?


This is one of the classic problems with klingon..


Some definitions tend to be so specific, that in the end we are being left holding our d***s, unable to express some things which one would expect them to be specified when these words were given.


We have "surface of water", we have "surface of a planet", and the "bottom surface of a table, ceiling".


But we don't have a word for "surface" in general.


It was sooo damn important to have a word for the bottom surface of a table though..


Because, surely, each day there are sooo many times we need to talk about the bottom surface of a table..


'a qay'be'.. jISaHQbe' jay'.. I should have learned by now..


~ changan qIj


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