[tlhIngan Hol] stitch vs. sew

[Steven Boozer]

I happened to watch TOS "Return to Tomorrow" last night on Chicago TV.  There was an relevant  line where Kirk tells McCoy in the briefing room:

  “That's like saying you wish that you still operated with scalpels and sewed your 
    patients up with catgut like your great-great-great-great-grandfather used to.” 

Colloquially "stitch" would work just as well as "sew" here.  "Suture" of course is the technical medical term.  

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Voragh

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From: DloraH via tlhIngan-Hol
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2023 4:45 PM

mu'ghomwIj:
sew:  	to work with needle and thread.
stitch:  	A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.


On Fri, 2023-10-13 Lieven L. Litaer via tlhIngan-Hol wrote:
> at the qepHom words wish list, somebody asked for a word for "to sew". 
> I searched for that, and noticed that we have a verb {QIS} of which I 
> thought it has that meaning, at least it does so in German.
> 
> So I wondered: What is the difference between "stitch" and "sew", if 
> there is any?