tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Apr 27 08:41:57 1994
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Re: DAYS OF WEEK, MONTHS & SEASONS IN KLINGON[D[D
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: DAYS OF WEEK, MONTHS & SEASONS IN KLINGON[D[D
- Date: Wed, 27 Apr 94 20:39:36 EDT
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "Joel Anderson" at Apr 27, 94 3:58 pm
According to Joel Anderson:
> Glen passed this on to me a while back,..
> The seasons too, present a problem, as we have no idea of the cycle of
> nature which occurs in the Klingon home world. It would be possible
> to describe our seasons in Klingon, however, and thus approximate the
> idea of Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. If we take the Klingon word
> poH meaning time and extend its meaning to accomodate season we could
> talk about the cold time (winter), the hot time (Summer), and the
> green time (Spring). When we get to fall, the problem gets trickier,
> as our concept of Fall comes from falling leaves and we do not have a
> word for leaf. Furthermore, it is questionable whether we
> can justify the verb pum: to fall as a stative verb. Our best bet
> seems to be to take our cue from 4.2.9 and assume that pum can be used
> as a noun as well as a verb. That would be give us the following
> names for the seasons:
>
> Spring: poH Sud
Why not {poH tujpa'}?
> Summer: poH tuj
> Fall: pum or pum poH
Why not {poH bIrpa'}?
> Winter: poH bIr
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