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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/12/2021 1:57 PM, mayqel qunen'oS
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">naw'wat (n)
remote, small, desolate place </p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">And I wonder..
Why does a remote, desolate place necessarily need to be small?
Aren't there remote, desolate places of the "big" kind?</p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">So why would
'oqranD give a word, which on one hand functions as a tool to
express ourselves further, but at the same time tie our hands
restricting its' meaning like this?</p>
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<p>Because the word refers to a place, not an area. It refers to a
place isolated in a desolate area, which makes the place
relatively small. If the place were large, it wouldn't be isolated
in its desolation.<br>
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cite="mid:qstuath0om93b2hjutgqsu4m.1631468602248@email.android.com">If
'oqranD had defined {naw'wat} as "remote, desolate place", and
that's it, then it would be easy to describe it further as "big"
or "small", and only if the size of the place was actually of any
significance. But now we can't. <br>
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<p>Big and small are relative. The pun of the word <b>naw'wat</b>
is that <i>NowWhat</i> is the name of an isolated, backwater
planet in <i>Mostly Harmless,</i> the fifth book of the
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. When the settlers arrived
at this miserable planet in the middle of nowhere, the first thing
they said was, "Now what?" It's an entire planet, but compared to
the vast scale of the galaxy, with all the interesting things in
it, this lousy, awful, and isolated planet is a <b>naw'wat.</b><br>
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