Felix Malmenbeck:
== WORD REQUEST MESSAGE == - allergy/intolerance/hypersensitivity
With so many new plant words recently, including one for "pollen", I figure the time is ripe to start complaining about them!
loQ 'oy'DI' SuvwI' bepbe' A warrior does not complain about physical discomfort. TKW ghIlab ghewmey tIbuSQo' Pay no heed to glob flies. TKW ram; ghIlab ghew rur trivial as a glob fly KGT ... not that they don't complain about everything else: (KGT 167): "This verb [{yIv}] literally means "chew". In its slang sense, it is found in such constructions as {choyIv} ("You bother me"--literally, "You chew me") or {muyIv romuluS Ha'DIbaH} ("The Romulan dog irks me"; literally, "The Romulan animal chews me" ... The subject of {yIv} can be only a person or creature, not an inanimate object or a situation. Thus, it is inappropriate to say something like {muyIv 'Iw HIq bIr} ("cold bloodwine chews me"). Standard ways to express the same idea are {nuQ} (annoy, bother) and {berghmoH} (irritate). -- Voragh tlhIngan ghantoH pIn'a' Ca'Non Master of the Klingons