On 3/21/2017 11:55 AM, Rhona Fenwick wrote:
Playing word-games" was not on my agenda and that was the reason for my replacement proverb. If that wasn't enough I'll apologise in English: I'm sorry for the confusion.
I wasn't accusing /you/ of playing word-games; I meant that we all have to play word-games when we come across a concept which simply hasn't been given to us in Klingon. We simply don't know what Klingons call the stuff that falls from the sky when it *peD*s. To talk about that stuff, we have to play word-games. We have to invent descriptions that our listeners are going to understand, then talk about the stuff we just described without ever actually naming it. Or we have to side-step talking about the actual stuff and just hint at it by talking about its effects or its origin. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name