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Author	Marc Okrand, Matt Johnson, Pam Felton
Date	4 January 1999
Summary	How to say “looks like” in Klingon.
Title	Re: ghew qab
Type	newsgroup posting

From: Marc Okrand <mokrand@erols.com>
Newsgroups: startrek.klingon
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 00:03:46 -0500
Subject: Re: ghew qab

Matt Johnson wrote...
>Pam Felton <yoshi@surfshop.net> writes
>> And is there a way to say "like"?  Such as, "He looks
>> like a bug."
>
> looks like =~ resemble? 'rur'
>
> ghew rur. "He resembles a bug."

No reason for me to add anything here!  This is a good illustration of the use of the verb <rur> "resemble."

The word <rur> also comes up a lot in Klingon similes, such as <'up; yIH rur> "(it's) disgusting as a tribble," literally "it's disgusting; it resembles a tribble" (<'up> "it is disgusting," <yIH> "tribble," <rur> "it resembles [it]").