tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 30 10:27:59 1996

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Re: Instruments



>Subject:     Re: Instruments
>Sent:        7/29/96 11:50 PM
>Received:    7/30/96 1:24 PM
>From:        [email protected]
>Reply-To:    [email protected]
>To:          Multiple recipients of list, [email protected]
>
>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
>Stardate 96577.3
>
Ok, [email protected] and [email protected] are the same 
persons, the mailer change autamtily the name, please unsuscribe me of 
this list.

thank

Jose Mijares




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