<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"
http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/21/2017 11:55 AM, Rhona Fenwick
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote
cite="mid:SYXPR01MB1822DC47E59B7106C9C0F986AA3D0@SYXPR01MB1822.ausprd01.prod.outlook.com"
type="cite"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Playing word-games" was
not on my agenda and that was the reason for my replacement
proverb. If that wasn't enough I'll apologise in English: I'm
sorry for the confusion.</span></blockquote>
<br>
<p>I wasn't accusing <i>you</i> of playing word-games; I meant that
we all have to play word-games when we come across a concept which
simply hasn't been given to us in Klingon. We simply don't know
what Klingons call the stuff that falls from the sky when it <b>peD</b>s.
To talk about that stuff, we have to play word-games. We have to
invent descriptions that our listeners are going to understand,
then talk about the stuff we just described without ever actually
naming it. Or we have to side-step talking about the actual stuff
and just hint at it by talking about its effects or its origin.<br>
</p>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
SuStel
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://trimboli.name">http://trimboli.name</a></pre>
</body>
</html>