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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/7/2021 7:58 AM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<div dir="auto">Back in the day (as americans say) we were saying:
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<div dir="auto">{'ul law'}</div>
<div dir="auto">much electricity</div>
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<div dir="auto">{'ul puS}</div>
<div dir="auto">little electricity</div>
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<div dir="auto">Then the game changed, and we begun to say:</div>
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<div dir="auto">{'ul vItlh}</div>
<div dir="auto">much electricity</div>
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<div dir="auto">But what was obviously forgotten was how to say
"little electricity".</div>
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<p><b>'ul vItlhHa'.</b></p>
<p>Here's how I visualize <b>-Ha'.</b> It's like a vector. If you
imagine a verb having a direction, adding <b>-Ha'</b> means to
deflect it from its normal direction.</p>
<p>So if you imagine <b>jatlh</b> <i>speak</i> as having a
"direction of communication," an imaginary direction representing
progressing speech, then <b>jatlhHa'</b><i> misspeak</i> is a
deflection from the normal direction of <b>jatlh.</b> If you
imagine <b>par</b><i> dislike</i> as having an emotional
direction, the more this way the more dislike, then <b>parHa'</b><i>
like</i> is a 180-degree turn.</p>
<p><b>-Ha'</b> isn't just negation (that's <b>-be'</b>). Negation
wouldn't be a vector; it would be a stoppage of the imagined
motion. <b>-Ha'</b> isn't just the opposite. It's a deflection
from the normal course.</p>
<p>So <b>vItlh</b> can clearly be imagined as having a direction.
Most of us would imagine that direction as upward. <b>vItlhHa'</b>
would be a deflection from upward, and for most contexts it would
make the most sense to be a turning to downward. Hence, if <b>vItlh</b>
is <i>high (in quantity, intensity),</i> then <b>vItlhHa'</b> is
<i>low (in quantity, intensity).</i><br>
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