tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Aug 11 13:08:30 1997
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Re: PLAY (was RE: KLBC: Klingon CD)
Weaver SE (Steve) wrote:
>
> ja' ~mark SuStel je:
>
> SuStel:
> >>We have {Quj} which means "play a game." This would probably be
> better.
> >>{reH} might mean a more general sort of playing, or it might mean an
> entirely
> >>different sort of playing (like playing a musical instrument, or
> playing a
> >>recording).
> ~mark:
> >At the qep'a', Krankor asked MO if he was right in using "reH" for
> playing
> >his guitar (which he did regularly--both playing the guitar AND
> referring
> >to it using "reH", that is). He said he hoped it was right because if
> it
> >wasn't he had nothing else. MO replied that "reH" did *not* mean play
> in
> >the sense of playing a musical instrument (leastways, that's what I
> >remember). He didn't volunteer a better word though.
>
> SPOILER: Klingon for the Galactic Traveler has:
>
> play (a musical instrument) (v) - chu'
> player (of a musical instrument) (n) - chu'wI'
> pluck (a stringed instrument) (v) - pang
>
> There are other words we needed WINDOW, STAIRS, etc etc....
>
> OOOOooooo! Is this book gonna start some stuff on the list or what??
> Somebody strap HoD Qanqor down first. This has all kinds of stuff in it
> about "dialects" (maybe even legitimizing Par Hol... *eyuch*)
>
> No wonder MO was "vegh" about all the new words }};-)
>
> PS
> I got TWO copies of KGT. ;-p
Is this book through the KLI or Paramount?
Katie