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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/2/2019 3:12 PM, qurgh lungqIj
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CALPi+eQ1ye1FmpmqL-QD+2=AVFKSfBCQcyUqVWj1frQ57pCRVw@mail.gmail.com">See,
this is where I interpret the English differently from you. I
interpret the list of "or"s as examples of different ways of
looking at the same thing (same with "adds a meaning of smallness
and/or lack of importance"). Like how {ghoS} can mean "approach"
or "go away from" or "proceed" or "come" or "follow (a course)"
depending on the context, or {-Daj} can mean "his" or "her" or
"its". For me, {-Hom} and {-'a'} mean all the things listed, with
some objects leaning more toward one of the meanings than the
other depending on context, but when I read a word like {naQHom} I
think of it as a {naQ} that can be smaller, and/or less important,
and/or less powerful. It can be one, it can be all. <br>
<br>
Based on the examples in TKD, and KGTs "meaning of smallness", it
seems like if there is just a change in size, then the change is
more than what {tIn/mach} can do by themselves. The {tajHom} on a
{Daqtagh} aren't <b>just</b> small knives, they are tiny
mini-blades. {SuSHom} is a tiny "wisp of air". {woQ'a'} is
"ultimate power". <br>
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Ultimately, this is my point: {-Hom} doesn't equal {mach}, and
{-'a'} doesn't equal {tIn}, there is much more to the suffixes
than those two words. </blockquote>
<p>Agreed about the <i>or.</i> When Okrand lists meanings like
that, he's not giving you a menu from which you make a single
selection; he's trying to transmit the gist. The Klingon suffix <b>-Hom</b>
has just one meaning: it's the concept embodied in the meshing of
the ideas of smallness, lack of importance, and lack of power. The
single idea that covers all those things is <b>-Hom.</b> It's
only the fact that we don't have a common word for it in English —
or German, so far as I know — that makes it confusing.</p>
<p>So no matter how long you hold a shrink ray on me, I never become
a <b>loDHom, </b>only a <b>loD mach,</b> or now, if you keep
going, a <b>loD nu'.</b><br>
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