tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 27 15:36:10 2014
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] geometry terminology in Klingon
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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>ghItlhpu' De'vID, jatlh:<br>> Oh, that's a good question. I don't know, but I'll ask. I intend to reply to<br><div>> Dr. Okrand's mail with some questions of my own, so if anyone else has<br>> noticed anything missing from the list or which needs to be clarified,<br>> please let me know.<br><br>jang naHQun, jatlh:<br>> The generic word for "shape".<br>> <br>> Possibly even "diamond", "heart", "oval", "semi-circle", and "crescent".<br><br>"Semicircle" seems easily done with {bID gho} (as opposed to {gho bID}, which I would interpret as "half of the circle" - which is still a semicircle, but implies that it has a matching half). A diamond is a special case of a {loS reD mey'}.<br><br>"Heart" is heavily culturally bound and probably not something Klingons have a word for. The heart shape doesn't come from a human heart's shape; it's been speculated that it comes rather from the shape of a fig or ivy leaf, or alternately, from the seeds of a now-extinct plant called silphium by the Romans.<br><br>QeS<br></div> </div></body>
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