tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 07 14:49:06 2003
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Re: {Quj, SuD, reH je}
ngabwI' wrote:
>Someone once explained to me the difference between {Quj} and {SuD}:
>You {Quj} chess, but you {SuD} poker.
Not exactly. {Quj} is "play a game" and is apparently transitive (the
object being the name of the game):
DaH ghew yIQuj
Cricket, please. (Radio Times book)
(lit. "Play 'bug' now!")
(Don't be confused by the homophonous noun {Quj} "game".)
{SuD} "gamble, take a chance), take a risk" seems to be intransitive:
bISuDrup'a'?
Will you take that chance? ST6
(Are you willing to take that chance? [novel])
HaDlu'meH, QuSlu'meH, SuDlu'meH lojmIt Da logh Hop Hut tengchaH.
vaj loghDaq lenglaHtaH Humanpu'
space station Deep Space Nine is the gateway for the exploration, intrigue
and enterprise that mark the continuation of the human adventure into
space... DS99
KLI members have sometimes used {SuD} for "bet", as in a game of poker
*{poQ'ar} - this is the KLI's spelling! - which is sometimes played at
qep'a'. This may be the usage you've heard of.
>I just found out about the verb {reH}.
>Does this have any special meaning? Does it include the ideas of {Quj} and
>{SuD}, or is it different altogether, (e.g. You {reH} football or baseball?)
No. {reH} seems to mean play in general - i.e. it's what children do - and
also appears to be intransitive:
reH puqpu'
The children play. KGT
(Remember Kruge's line in ST3 about how charming he imagined living on a
newly terraformed planet would be "with your wife at your side, your
children playing at your feet, and the flag of the Federation fluttering
overhead.")
So... children can play {reH} outside, and you can play {Quj} a specific
game (i.e. football, baseball, poker, chess, klin zha, etc.). Some games
{Qujmey} (e.g. poker) require you to gamble {SuD}, while others (e.g. tag)
require you to run {qet}, etc.
N.B. a different verb {chu'} means "play a musical instrument".
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons