<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 at 15:27, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="gmail-m_-6833808182286131492moz-cite-prefix">On 3/8/2019 9:00 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<pre class="gmail-m_-6833808182286131492moz-quote-pre">To illustrate my obscure point, I will use the verb Say'qu'moH and an
ancient cat.
So, lets say we just spent a fortune to acquire an ancient cat, and
the first thing we do is to make it very clean..
{vIghro' tIQ wIje'ta'bogh wISay'qu'moH}
we make the ancient cat which we have bought very clean
Right ?
But the problem is, that Say'qu'moH has been given as "to sterilize".
</pre></blockquote><p>When we're given something like this, where a word plus suffixes
is translated in a way that an analysis of word plus suffixes
would not yield, I take it to mean that the combination has
special meaning to Klingons through whatever quirk of language
evolution, and the meaning of the components is overridden. If you
say <b>vIghro' wISay'qu'moH,</b> you're saying you're sterilizing
the cat, even if you just wanted to say you're making the cat very
clean. </p></div>
</blockquote></div><div><br></div>sterilize /ˈstɛrɪlʌɪz/ v.<div>1. make (something) free from bacteria or other living microorganisms.</div><div>2. deprive (a person or animal) of the ability to produce offspring, typically by removing or blocking the sex organs.<br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>jIyweS wa'DIch neH 'oS {Say'qu'moH}. jIyweS cha'DIch 'oSbe'bej.</div><div><br></div><div>When you say {vIghro' wISay'qu'moH}, you are in fact saying that you're making the cat very clean - clean to the point of being free from bacteria. You're not saying that you're giving it a vasectomy or hysterectomy.</div><div><br></div><div>Just pointing this out as "sterilize a cat (an animal)" has a specific idiomatic meaning in English.</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div></div>