<div dir="auto"><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 28, 2017 10:00, "Anthony Appleyard" <<a href="mailto:a.appleyard@btinternet.com">a.appleyard@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----<br>
My autotranslater's assembled Klingon-English dictionary says:<br>
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tev N prize<br>
tey V scrape=<br>
teywI' N file(tool)=<br>
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In the qep'a' 24 definition, does "close" mean merely "near to", or does it have an American English meaning which I as a British English speaker in England have not heard of?<br>
I am familiar with weather being described as "close" when the air is as stuffy outdoors as indoors.</blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It means that something is a "close call". {tey yay} means the victory was decided at the last minute or almost wasn't.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-- </div><div dir="auto">De'vID</div><div dir="auto"></div></div>