tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Oct 22 11:43:28 1998
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Re: drillmusciangroup
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: drillmusciangroup
- Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 14:43:22 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
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wej wej DIp motlhvaD wa' DIp mojmoH *Okrand*. reH wa' DIpHey le'
lo' wej chovnatlh junobbogh. wej DIpmey Dararchugh ghaytan
bIjatlhchu'be'.
None of these examples involve Okrand combining three normal
nouns to form a new single noun. I do not think they provide
good evidence that it is recommended that people commonly
combine three nouns into one. I do not believe this practice is
likely to make your words easy to understand.
charghwI' 'utlh
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998 11:03:05 -0700 (PDT) Steven Boozer
<[email protected]> wrote:
> : You know that thread where the writer said, "If we can mash two nouns
> together,
> : why not three?" Or something to that effect. Well, I just started to read
> my
> : TKD another time this morning and on page 19 it says a compound noun can
> consist
> : of two or three nouns. So apparently it is okay to do that with Klingon,
> right?
> :
> : K'ryntes
>
> Right, though they are not common. Here are three off the top of my head:
>
> DIvI'may'Duj Federation battle cruiser
>
> yuQjIjDIvI' United Federation of Planets (or)
> yuQjIjQa' United Federation of Planets
>
> although there are no known nouns {jIj} or {Qa'} -- well, there is the vicious
> {Qa'} animal, but this {Qa} is clearly different.
>
> 'ejyo'waw' starbase
>
> "The syllable {'ej} also occurs in {'ejyo'} 'Starfleet'. There are,
> however, no known Klingon words {'ej}, {Do'}, or {yo'} that have
> anything to do with Starfleet, starships, the Federation, or space
> vehicles of any kind. It is quite likely ... an Old Klingon word
> ... that is used nowhere except in the noun {'ejDo'}. Of course,
> without further study, that remains pure conjecture." (TKD p.20)
>
>
> _________________________________________________________________________
> Voragh "Grammatici certant et adhuc sub judice
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons lis est." Horace (Ars Poetica)