<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">law’wI’ could easily be the Klingon term for gestalt beings and/or entities with a collective consciousness. We don’t have much in the way of common terms for those since they are not something we encounter regularly, but they are decidedly more common in Trek.<div><br></div><div>—jevreH<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Feb 21, 2019, at 13:49, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/21/2019 1:37 PM, Ed Bailey wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 12:55 PM SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" moz-do-not-send="true">sustel@trimboli.name</a>>
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<p><b>law'</b> means <i>be many,</i> so <b>law'wI'</b>
means <i>one who is many...</i> </p>
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<div>The rigidity of this translation is what makes it
nonsensical. For anything countable, the meaning of <b>law'</b> makes
<b>law'wI'</b> inherently plural. It could be translated as
"the many," just as <b>qanwI'</b> can be translated "the
old."<br>
As a substitute for a mass noun, <b>law'wI'</b> could be
translated "much." None of which means Klingons actually use
the term <b>law'wI'</b>, but even if they don't, I expect
they'd get your meaning.</div>
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<p>Exactly what I said: "yeah, but you get it anyway."<br>
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