On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 1:32 PM, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:

A clipped form of something long that just happens to exactly resemble something shorter that is the Englishy way you want to say it anyway is just a little too convenient for my tastes.

You have a good point about being too Englishy, and it's good to keep in mind. But on the other hand, it's not like English is the only language that shortens things, and using Hech with a noun object that represents some sort of intended outcome doesn't seem to me to stretch the basic idea of the verb so much that a Klingon would only consider it after too much exposure to DIvI' Hol.

No, it doesn't seem like a huge stretch, and if that's how it works, then that's fine. I'm just saying let's not go down the clipping-to-make-it-work-like-English-because-that's-easier route, which we have wrestled with before on this list. As I said, my strongest reaction to the initial question was a mere "I'm not so sure."

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