[Tlhingan-hol] geometry terminology in Klingon
Felix Malmenbeck
felixm at kth.se
Tue Jan 28 09:11:40 PST 2014
Voragh:
> The real question is: How to say "hollow"? We do have {chIm} "be empty" which, if appropriate WRT geometrical figures, implies {buy'} "be full, be filled up" for solid objects.
One [admittedly rather cumbersome] possibility is to distinguish between, for example, {qoD ghajbogh 'Impey'e'} ("pyramid with an interior") and {qoD Hutlhbogh 'Impey'e'} ("pyramid lacking an interior").
You could perhaps get away with referring to a "solid X" simply as an "X qoD", since its boundary (its veH? its reDmey?) is infinitely thin, anyway.
Perhaps.
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