<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="">If a remote place were large enough, you might find something to do there, at which point you’d have no reason to say to yourself, “Now, what?"<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 12, 2021, at 1:57 PM, mayqel qunen'oS <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com" class="">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div id="d_1631469409168" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div style="font-size: 9pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">naw'wat (n) remote, small, desolate place<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><br class=""><div style="font-size: 9pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">And I wonder.. Why does a remote, desolate place necessarily need to be small? Aren't there remote, desolate places of the "big" kind?</div><br class=""><div style="font-size: 9pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">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?</div><br class=""><div style="font-size: 9pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">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.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><br class=""><div style="font-size: 9pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">So we're stuck with a word that only works one third of the time:</div><br class=""><div style="font-size: 9pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">1/3 remote, desolate place which is big<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="font-size: 9pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">1/3 remote, desolate place which is small<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="font-size: 9pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">1/3 remote, desolate place which is average</div><br class=""><div style="font-size: 9pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">~ Dana'an</div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">tlhIngan-Hol mailing list</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><a href="mailto:tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><a href="http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>