tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Aug 02 01:49:42 1994
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Re: salutations!!!!
- From: d'Armond Speers <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: salutations!!!!
- Date: Tue, 02 Aug 1994 13:44:39 -0400 (EDT)
Michaelvo':
> Hi! I hope I'm not going to annoy anyone by asking a rather simplistic
> question... I am very much a beginner.
We were all beginners at some point, and some of us pay particular
attention to the needs of beginners!
> Is there a word for 'eclipse' in the Klingon lang.? Someone asked me, and
> I couldn't locate it in my TKD, I tried coming up with something like
No, no word for eclipse (as far as I can tell). You could pursue
something with "shadow," as you suggest: {maSDaq QIb} or some such. I
caution, though, that just because a coinage makes sense to your ears,
doesn't mean that other speakers of tlhIngan Hol will be able to
figure out your intention. For example, I doubt I'd have figured out
charghwI''s "smile" {nuj Quch} if I didn't have a translation
available!
> Any help appreciated greatly!
>
> Michael (who's nickname is 'Scanner' but forgot what that is in Klingoneze as
> well and forgot his TDK at home... :) )
I don't know what it'd be in *Klingoneze*, as I'm not even sure what
that is, but in tlhIngan Hol, it'd be {HotlhwI'}.
--Holtej, the Beginner's Grammarian