tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 02 12:42:29 2002
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Re: chay' mu' <jum> vIlo'?
> >> Klingon word: jum
> >> Part of Speech: verb
> >> Definition: be odd
Quvar:
> > chay' mu'vetlh vIlo'? jISovbe' jIH.
> > I don't know how to use that word.
SuStel:
>It probably means "be strange," since "be odd (numbered)" would imply
>"be even (numbered)," which doesn't seem to exist.
I agree. Usually when Okrand translated paired concepts (e.g. man/woman,
good/bad, large/small, yes/no, black/white, etc.), he translated both at
the same time. The fact that he didn't give us a word for "be even" is an
indication he wasn't thinking in terms of odd/even.
More convincingly, when this very question came up not long ago someone
pointed out that {jum} is mentioned in "Conversational Klingon" in the
section on taking a tour and expressing opinions of Klingon sites:
HoS lIngwI' wIjuS. 'IH, qar'a'?
We're passing a power generator. It's beautiful, isn't it?
Qualities on the tape a tourist might want to use were:
beautiful 'IH
ugly moH
odd jum
powerful HoSghaj
superior nIv
inferior QIv
messy ghIH
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons