tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 13 10:59:36 2009
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RE: Yet another newbie!
buSwI':
>>>>>I do not think I got it right, I think it should be:
>>>>> {mu'Hom laDlu'taHviS yeplu'qu'niS}
Voragh:
>>>> "One must be very careful when (while) one reads the Dictionary."
>>>>
>>>>"Dictionary" is {mu'ghom}. A *{mu'Hom} - {mu'} "word" + {-Hom}
>>>>"diminutive" - would be a "wordlet, minor word, etc." (A grammatical
>>>>"particle" perhaps?)
Tracy:
>>> I took it to mean "fine print".
buSwI':
>> maj! choyajpu'!
My mistake. I was led astray by the fact that TKD doesn't have any fine print!
Tracy:
>Since -Hom isn't merely "small", but "minor", perhaps "fine print"
>could be handled as mu'HomHey "apparently minor words".
Fine print isn't necessarily {-Hom} "minor". In fact, it's often more important than the regular print! That's the very reason people use fine print, after all.
*{mu'mey mach[qu']} "[very] small words" might work. (People always forget about {mach} "be small", preferring {-Hom} instead.)
Another way to go would be *{mu'mey QIv} "inferior words" (i.e. fine print) vs. *{mu'mey nIv} "superior words" (i.e. regular print).
But keep in mind that {mu'} "word" is a unit of speech, not necessarily print. Cf. these expressions from KGT:
mu'mey Doy' old-fashioned speech ("tired words")
mu'mey ghoQ slang ("fresh words")
mu'mey qar standard or proper Klingon ("accurate words")
mu'mey ru' made-up words, nonce words ("temporary words")
Some people on the List use {Degh} "symbol" or *{DeghHom} for "letter (of the alphabet)". I've also seen *{Deghmey} and *{Deghghom} used for "font" (i.e. set of [written] symbols).
And, since the native Klingon writing system is called {pIqaD}, maybe *{pIqaDHom} would work. E.g.:
mab DaqI'pa' Hoch pIqaDHom yIlaDchu'!
Before you sign a contract (treaty), read all the fine print carefully!
... at least for those written in Klingon. <g>
--
Voragh
Canon Master of the Klingons