tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Dec 11 15:36:29 1998
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Re: Klingon Bird of Prey (KBP) poster: THE TEXT!
>> choH lISbogh Hap'e': cha'pujqut
>> Reaction Moderating Element - Crystalline Dilithium
charghwI':
: No. That's a relative clause and he wanted to make sure you saw
: it as "matter which adjusts change" and not "change that is
: adjusted by matter".
peHruS:
: Just pointing out choices of words. {choH} means "change, alter"; {lIS}
means
: "adjust." So as not to confuse beginners.....
:
: Meanwhile, we already have {woj} for "reaction," in a sense of meaning.
And,
: MO did not use it here.
Again, so as not to confuse beginners... {woj} means "radiation" NOT
"reaction". SkyBox S19 uses it in discussing the Klingon communicator
(QumwI'):
janmey ngo' lulo'lu'DI' pIj jabbI'ID nISpu' woj
Older models were susceptible to radiation.
We also have {woj choHwI'} "reactor", or the "thing which alters radiation"
(Okrand's explanation). For both of these see the TKD Addendum and HolQeD
1.3.
So Okrand's use of the noun {choH} "change" - not to be confused with the
homophonous verb {choH} "change, alter" or the Type 3 verb suffix {-choH}
"change in state/direction" - is a good one to translate the idea of the
nuclear or antimatter "reaction" itself, as opposed to the reactor (woj
choHwI') or dilithium chamber (cha'puj pa') where the reaction occurs.
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