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<p>ghItlhpu' Jeremy, jatlh:</p>
<p>> Ask if there's a related verb - to grind?</p>
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<p>jang loghaD, jatlh:</p>
<p>> pulmoH?</p>
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<p>jang je Jeremy, jatlh:</p>
<p>> <span>I think that's valid only if the purpose is to create the ground up particles.</span></p>
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<p><span>Er, yes. You didn't specify which sense of "to grind" you meant in your first question. The Klingon verb {pulmoH} is not necessarily going to be a one-to-one match with the English verb "to grind".</span></p>
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<p><span>></span> What if you're grinding to make a blade sharp or a rock smooth?</p>
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<p>For both of those circumstances I'd be happy to use {tey} "to scrape", following the context discussed for that verb in KGT (p.79). For instance, {tajwIj vIjejmoHmeH naghDaq vItey} "I grind my knife on a stone to sharpen it".</p>
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<p>taH loghaD, jatlh:</p>
<p>> There's also {tap}, meaning "mash" or "squash".</p>
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<p>jangqa' Jeremy, jatlh:<br>
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<p>> Can that also be used for "crush"?</p>
<p>> e.g. jaghpu'lI' Datap</p>
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<p>Again, you're running into an issue of sense there. <span>{tap} probably can be used for "crush", but only in the sense of crushing garlic cloves, or<span> grapes for wine,</span> or stones for mineral pigment, or that sort of thing.</span> 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.</p>
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