<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 10:32 AM, SuStel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" target="_blank">sustel@trimboli.name</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 7/27/2016 10:24 AM, Ed Bailey wrote:<br>
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<p style="text-align:left">jatlh Rhona Fenwick:<br>
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<p style="text-align:left;margin-left:40px">I don't see
anything wrong with saying someone {qIvDu'Daj weqtaH} "is
drumming on their knees with their palms".</p>
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jang SuStel:<br>
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<p style="margin-left:40px">In that case, your knees are a
percussion instrument. You haven't deviated from the
disambiguator at all-- <br>
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<p>This first of all assumes the purpose of drumming on knees
is to make music, and second, we don't know Klingons would
consider a body part so used to be instrument. When the
voice is spoken of as an instrument, it bends the usage for
effect. But even if the knee slapping is to express
amusement, it's understandably similar to playing a drum.</p>
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</span><p><b>weq</b> doesn't mean <i>hit an object which just happens to
be a percussion instrument, whether or not the hitting is intended
to make music.</i> If a car were to ram into a drum, that would
not be <b>weq,</b> but it certainly would be a kind of hit.</p>
<p>If you're rhythmically slapping your knees, or even just once
when timed for audible effect, that's <b>weq.</b> If you just
happen to hit your knees once at random, that's not <b>weq.</b></p><span class="">
<p><br></p></span></div></blockquote><div>SuStel, I believe you are making your argument for us. You are clearly explaining <<weq>> as "hitting (something) in the manner in which one hits a drum." We are arguing that <<chIp>> means "cutting or trimming (something) in the manner in which one cuts or trims hair."</div><div><br></div><div>be''etlh </div></div></div></div>