tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Nov 16 07:55:13 2014
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] geometry and card games
I'm really enjoying all the new vocabulary, thanks everyone!
From a wordplay perspective, the word {yergh} is interesting. Lots of
Klingon words can be changed into other Klingon words by adding a
consonant to the end {such as the new law + ' = law'}. But I can't
think of any other Klingon words that can be changed into another word
by adding a vowel at the end: {yergh + o = yergho}.
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 5:53 AM, De'vID <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The following are summaries of the geometry and card games information
> revealed at the qepHom. (Everything in between [brackets] are Marc Okrand's
> words, minus the bold formatting for Klingon words which was stripped when I
> cut and pasted his mail from my phone.)
>
> Geometry:
>
> [ra’Duch puj “scalene triangle”
>
> tIQ in ra’Duch tIQ “equilateral triangle” is used for triangles only. For
> other polygons with equal sides/angles, the word HoS is used instead. For
> example:
>
> vagh reD mey’ HoS “regular pentagon”
>
> A letbaQ HoS “regular rectangle,” of course, can also be called a meyrI’
> “square.”
>
> While Don means “be parallel,” DonHa’ does not mean “be perpendicular.” It
> means something like “be misaligned.” The word for “be perpendicular” is
> leD and it’s normally used with a plural subject: leD rav tlhoy’ je “the
> floor and the wall are perpendicular (to each other).”
>
> The word leD is also used to indicate a right angle: tajvaj leD. Other
> angles are:
>
> tajvaj’a’ “obtuse angle”
>
> tajvajHom “acute angle”
>
> Traditionally (meaning long ago), angles were measured using a unit called a
> law. Using the decimal counting system, there were 243 lawmey in a gho
> (“circle”), and each angle in a ra’Duch tIQ (“equilateral triangle”) had
> 40.5 lawmey.
>
> These days, Klingons reckon angles the way most of the galaxy does. The
> unit of measure (“degree”) is a lawrI’ (some people say law chu’, though
> that’s used less and less), and there are 360 lawrI’mey in a gho and 60
> lawrI’mey in each angle of a ra’Duch tIQ.
>
> The point on a star is a QIn.
>
> The general word for “polyhedron” is yergh.]
>
> Card games:
>
> [Maltz said the card games he’d seen on Earth were all new to him and didn’t
> match up with any Klingon games he was familiar with. Nevertheless, he’d
> become rather fond of one game, which he calls ’urghwI’ (“one that jabs or
> pokes”), a name he made up based on what he thought the Federation Standard
> name of the game was (but other Klingons probably would not understand this
> word in this sense).
>
> In this game and in others, Maltz noticed that cards were divided up into
> four types he called Deghmey (“symbols”). He said he’d seen different kinds
> of Deghmey on Terran cards, but he was most familiar with one set, and he
> was able to find Klingon Deghmey equivalents for three of the four Terran
> Deghmey in this set:
>
> meyrI’mey (“squares”) corresponds to diamonds. Maltz said he didn’t know why
> they were called diamonds since they don’t look like sparkling gems. They
> aren’t really squares, either, but they are quadrilaterals, and that seemed
> to be good enough to use the Klingon Degh equivalent.
>
> pormey (“leaves”) corresponds to hearts. Maltz recognized the symbol on the
> cards as being the same one he’d seen on valentine cards (a custom he didn’t
> understand at all), but they didn’t look like tIqDu’ (“hearts”) to him –
> human or Klingon or otherwise.
>
> Sormey (“trees”) corresponds to clubs. Maltz didn’t know why the symbol was
> called a club since it didn’t look to him like a jeqqIj (“bludgeon”) or a
> ghanjaq (“mace”). But it was, nevertheless, pretty close to the Klingon
> Sor.
>
> Maltz also had no idea why the remaining symbol was termed a spade. He
> couldn’t figure out what it was, and it didn’t resemble any Klingon Degh.
> He just called a spade ’eSpeD.]
>
> --
> De'vID
>
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