<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hmmm. {DIl} <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So, I pay a baker five {DeQmey} for a {chab}…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">chabDaj vIDIlmeH vutwI’vetlhvaD vagh DeQ vInob. <br class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">It works, but it doesn’t give us a very efficient a means of connecting the money with the pie or the person to buy it from.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">chabwIj DIllu’meH vagh DeQ vIpoQ.</div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">Klingons obviously aren’t Farengi. No wonder Klingon vendors just stare at you and then gripe, {nuqneH?}</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Talk about buying and selling things and establishing value for things is not as simple in Klingon as in many other languages.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This explains a lot. I’m no longer surprised that they’d rather just beat you up and take the pie.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s simpler and takes less time.</div><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 10, 2019, at 4:53 PM, De'vID <<a href="mailto:de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com" class="">de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Huh? The confusion is *due* to the verb's inconsistent meaning due to context and use with prepositions in English. It's the same problem that came up with {DIl} earlier.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">{DIl} means that the subject is giving out something, to obtain something or fulfil a financial obligation. A short way to gloss that in English is "pay for". But English is inconsistent in that you pay for a meal, pay rent, pay off a mortgage, etc. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">...</div></div>-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>
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