[Tlhingan-hol] Need a word for ...

Steven Boozer sboozer at uchicago.edu
Thu Nov 20 07:50:58 PST 2014


<lojmitti7wi7nuv at gmail.com> wrote:
>> <<maSorHa’laH>> bIjatlh. wot {Sor} vIghovbe’.
 
ghunchu'wI':
> See http://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/2013/July/msg00142.html (and the
> following discussion).
> 
> {SorHa'} "speak metaphorically"
> {Sor}    "speak literally" was implied but not explicitly defined.
 

Qov reported from qep'a' 2013 that:

   [Okrand] appears to agree that this implies {Sor} means "speak
   literally", and that this is connected to the expression {lugh: 
   Sor rur} ["correct as a tree"]. The pun with "sure" appears from
   his reaction to be intentional.


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons




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