tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 08 16:28:22 1996
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RE: KLBC: vIttlhegh vImugh
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: vIttlhegh vImugh
- Date: Fri, 8 Nov 96 22:52:17 UT
jatlh HurghwI':
> SuD as in the color? Duct tape is grey anyway.
Well, {SuD} doesn't mean "exactly blue" or "exactly green" or "exactly
yellow." Get a hold of a copy of HolQeD 5:2, which has a terrific article
about Klingon colors by Nick Nicholas. Since we (annoyingly) don't have a
word for "gray," I chose to see it as a "dark" or "cold" color (for Klingons,
these are apparently blue, green, and yellow). If I understand the bit about
colors, {SuD} can be used to represent any "cold" color which a Klingon comes
across. (Besides, English has more basic color words than any other Terran
language. There are going to be a few which are difficult to translate.)
"Gray" isn't really a color as far as this sort of thing goes, I suppose. You
really might just have to keep "duct tape" in its English form.
> Why not the probably incorrect:
> "Humbogh nav'e' qIj wov"
> or is it perhaps:
> "qIjbogh wov Humbogh nav'e'"
If you want to say "sticky, bright, black paper," two of these adjectives are
going to have to become {-bogh} clauses and be connected with {'ej}.
Humbogh 'ej wovbogh nav qIj'e'
Don't forget that {-'e'} is a Type 5 noun suffix, and therefore must be tacked
onto the end of any verb which follows a noun, not on the noun itself (TKD
pp.49-50).
Does "sticky, bright, black paper" really convey the idea of duct tape to you?
Where's that unidirectional molecular bonding strip?
SuStel
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