tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 29 20:43:53 1996
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Re: Instruments
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- Subject: Re: Instruments
- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 23:45:56 -0400
qaSDI' 96-07-29 05:33:05 EDT, jatlh A.Appleyard:
> With these four, the verbs that they are derived from are not in TKD:-
> (1) chamwI' N technician
> (2) chu'wI' N trigger (chu' V = "he is new")
> (3) De'wI' N computer
> (4) HerghwI' N [hypo|pneumatic hypo] (Hergh N = "medicine")
>
> (1) There is a pop music song containing "... it's not your Durchsprung
> durch Technique you know ...": someone posted a Klingon translation of it
> once; in it (as well as using several verbs unaltered as nouns = "act or
> condition of X'ing") he ventured to invent the word *{cham} N =
"technique",
> probably extracted from {chamwI'}.
Cute, but I, for one, would never understand it without it being explained to
me. And then I still wouldn't accept it.
> (2) Also means "someone or something who is new", as {chu'} = "he is
new".
~mark has already taken care of this one.
> (4) Looks like *{Hergh} is, or once was, a verb "administer medicine
to".
Or, more likely, a shortened form of {Hergh QaywI'}, which was eventually
lexicalized as {HerghwI'}.
You're trying to invent more words again, aren't you? :( This is exactly
why you can't. Here, you wanted to suggest that {Hergh} was a verb, when
there is absolutely no evidence of such a situation, just like there is no
word {cham}.
Appleyard 'I' vInughI'. {{:-D
SuStel
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