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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Gleanings from Monopoly: Klingon Edition (MKE)

lojmIt tI'wI'nuv ([email protected]) 

<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Then again, there's the problem of the meaning of "battery" in English. People don't seem to realize that the term "battery" is a collective term meaning "one or more chemical-electrical cells", and the thing people think of as "a battery" is actually a cell. If your flashlight needs what most people call "two D batteries", it actually needs ONE battery, consisting of two D cells.<div><br></div><div>I have an original Honda Insight. It has a battery that consists of 144 D cells soldered together in a series of tubes that are wired together in an array. The array is the battery. There is only one array. There is only one battery. There are 144 cells in that battery. Almost every use of the word "batteries" is technically wrong.</div><div><br></div><div>So, if everybody uses a word the same wrong way in English, the general rule is that this uniform wrong use of the word is the new right way to use the word, right?<br><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Mar 12, 2012, at 10:27 AM, Steven Boozer wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>It does, but the translation isn't precise:<br><br> &nbsp;veymey puS neH chenmoHlu'pu' <br> &nbsp;Limited Edition. MKE<br> &nbsp;("Only a few {veymey} have been made.")<br><br> &nbsp;boSwI'vaD veyvam le' chenmoHlu' <br> &nbsp;Collector's Edition. MKE<br> &nbsp;("This special {vey} made for the collector.")<br><br> &nbsp;wa' tlhIngan QaS vey <br> &nbsp;one pack of Klingon Forces. MKE<br><br>"Set, pack" seems to be the jist - a group of related objects? &nbsp;The package or box itself seems to be called a {'aplo'} which is written on the Monopoly box:<br><br>CONTENTS:<br>ngaS 'aplo'<br><br>Game board, 6 Collectible tokens, 28 Title Deed cards, 16 COMBAT<br> cards, 16 HONOR cards, 2 dice, 32 Outposts, 12 Capitals, 1<br> Pack of Klingon Forces, Rules, Chancellor's Cane Replica.<br>Quj 'echlet, polmeH jav QujwI' lIwmey, cha'maH chorgh yer ghajwI'<br> chaw' 'echletHommey, wa'maH jav quv 'echletHommey, wa'maH<br> jav vIq 'echletHommey, cha' mI' naghmey, wejmaH cha' raQmey,<br> wa'maH cha' monmey, wa' tlhIngan QaS vey, paqHom, Qang naQ velqa'.<br><br><br>{'aplo'} is also used in TalkNow Klingon (TNK):<br><br>wab qoSta' 'aplo' <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">	</span>cassette (i.e. audiocassette)<br>'ul 'aplo'mey <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">	</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">	</span>batteries<br><br><br>--<br>Voragh<br>Ca'Non Master of the Klingons<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">-----Original Message-----<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">From: Felix Malmenbeck [mailto:[email protected]]<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Doesn't the box say {veymey puS neH luchenmoHlu'pu'}?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">From: Phil Reynolds [<a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>]<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On 09/03/12 19:08, Qov wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Steven Boozer wrote:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">vey &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;pack (of cards) (n) &nbsp;[new]<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I hope it's more general than "pack of cards." &nbsp;I was thinking<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">something like "set."<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Not sure where I got it from but in my personal word list it is<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">defined as "pack, package". Useful confirmation it can be used for<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">'echletHommey here.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Phil Reynolds<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">email: <a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a><br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>Tlhingan-hol mailing list<br><a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a><br>http://stodi.digitalkingdom.org/mailman/listinfo/tlhingan-hol<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>
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