<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=""><div class="">Thank you for pointing this out. I wanted to say this, but didn’t want to cause any angst or stress over something that, truth be told, I’m not that invested in.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As they say in the South, {targh may'vamDaq, targh vIHutlh.}</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 29, 2020, at 8:51 AM, SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name" class="">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/29/2020 3:04 AM, Lieven L. Litaer
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<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:88dfe170-6d8a-6c48-1d13-5937296e07dc@gmx.de" class="">Would it be
okay to write the following inthe Wiki?
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It seems that {chorgh} <i class="moz-txt-slash"><span class="moz-txt-tag">/</span>be glossy<span class="moz-txt-tag">/</span></i>
refers to texture while {boch}} /be
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shiny/ refers to how light is being reflected. There is an overlap
in
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meanings, because glossy things can be shiny, but not everything
that is
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shiny has to be glossy.
</blockquote><p class="">Why not just leave it to <i class="">glossy</i> and <i class="">shiny</i> and not
try to editorialize what words mean? People have access to
dictionaries.</p><p class="">All this talk is not about the difference between the Klingon
words <b class="">chorgh</b> and <b class="">boch,</b> but about the difference
between the English words <i class="">glossy</i> and <i class="">shiny.</i>
Whether these words translate absolutely exactly is unknown.<br class="">
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SuStel
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