tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Oct 11 07:30:37 1996
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Re: jInajpu'
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>Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 21:11:36 -0700
>From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
>peHruS writes:
I'm going to comment on more of peHruS' words privately to him, for now I'm
just going to remark on ghunchu'wI''s comments.
>>Daj = experiment (v)
>The meaning "test inconclusively" is quite specific. Perhaps some uses
>of "experiment" might fit it, but certainly not all. Your translation
>would be an unwarranted expansion of the existing idea.
I think it's pretty close, actually. Though it implies that the experiment
was inconclusive. {tob} is also "experiment", with a different goal or
result implied.
>>chIj = drive (a car, e.g.) (v)
>If you said "navigate a car" I would understand it, but I would infer an
>emphasis on determining the course. (That is, of course, if there were
>a simple word for "car"...)
I kind of like it, actually.
>>QeDmey = curricula [qunQeD, mI'QeD, chutQeD, wIchQeD, etc.] (n)
>With the exception of {wIchQeD}, these all make reasonable sense without
>having to invoke a new interpretation of {QeD}. But what am I supposed
>to understand the oxymoronic "myth-science" to mean?
The science of studying myths? Mythology? Maybe even religion?
>>-vI' = decimal-type accumulator factor (suffix)
>Aside from this being another one of the single-example extrapolations,
>we actually have canon that contradicts it: {cha'maH vagh vatlhvI' Hong}
>for "one quarter impulse power".
Don't forget chetvI'. Maybe I can think of a way to interpret these that
combines both meanings. But I doubt it. :)
>>luQ = straight (sv)
>I don't have a clue as to what reasoning brought *this* suggestion.
DungluQ("noon"). I think of "luQ" as reminding me of "laQ" which in turn
makes me think of fire, and think of the fiery sun in the area-above,
overhead. That's personal mnemonic, though, no derivation.
>>(NOTE: yesh lelashon 'ivrit "chet".)
>Whatever.
It's Hebrew, but I'm not sure what he means. "The Hebrew language has
'chet'"... but reading "ch" as "H" or Klingon "ch" doesn't give me a
meaningful word in Hebrew (Het is a letter, Heit is a word for sin, and the
Klingon ch sound doesn't exist in native Hebrew) or in Klingon. jImISchu'.
~mark
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