tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jul 03 17:05:13 1997
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HolQeD 6.2 SkyBox vocab
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: HolQeD 6.2 SkyBox vocab
- Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 20:04:42 -0400 (EDT)
In the latest HolQeD, we get some new vocab (albeit some of it tough to
give a precise translation) from the reprinted SkyBox card info. I won't
reveal all the new vocab here, for those of you who haven't gotten the HolQeD
yet, but there were two questionable words that I was wondering about:
S32 says <'oy'naQ 'vI law' tlhuD 'oH.> I assume that the <'vI> is a typo
(then again, it could be derived from <pe'vIl>). If <'vI> *is* a typo, I'm
wondering what it was supposed to be. Could it be 'Iv, or vI'? Of course we
already have 2 (or 3, see below) definitions for each of these words, so
maybe to avoid homophony it *is* 'vI (although an initial glottal stop
followed by another consonant would be unique).
S33 says <HovpoH Hut vagh cha' wa' vI' jav> at the end, which along with
the last couple sentences wasn't translated into English. This makes the
verb <'agh> quite hard to translate, unless the actual SkyBox card includes
the translation and it merely was unprinted in HolQeD. Anyway, a quick
inspection of the Star Trek Chronology verifies that the above stardate is
indeed when the special Cloaking Device was used, and so the <vI'> in the
above sentence would appear to mean <mark, (in stardates)>.
But I doubt that is true, since <vI'> is right next to <DoD> in TKD
Addendum, making <DoD> the word that I expect Okrand intended to use above,
but accidentally wrote down <vI'>.
If anyone has these actual SkyBox cards, or any other ideas/insights about
the new vocabulary from HolQeD 6.2, feel free to reveal them.
-taD
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