tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 14 21:34:27 1997
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More New Words!
- From: "Neal Schermerhorn" <[email protected]>
- Subject: More New Words!
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 97 04:33:32 UT
charghwI' posted a question to MO on the MSN BBS a while back - since he is
apparently traveling, I will post it here for him.
>Marc,
>
> On Conversational Klingon, you used a word for "expensive" and there have
> been arguments as to whether this word was {waH} or {wagh}. Could you
> settle this once and for all? It is not so much that it matters which it is
> so long as we all use the same word and stop arguing about it.
And here is MO's response - oh boy!
>I hope this word isn't overly expensive (that is, I hope nobody has
>anything riding on my answer), but here's the deal.
>
>{wagh} is "be expensive."
>
>{waH} means "try out, use (experimentally)" and it is also the word used
>for "taste" in the sense of trying out food to see if it's prepared
>properly or to find out if you like it. Another verb, {mum}, means "taste"
>in the sense of "perceive flavor(s)." Thus, the English sentence "I taste
>the gagh" (if "gagh" can be properly used in an English sentence) may be
>translated into Klingon in two ways:
>
> qagh vImum "I perceive the gagh's flavor" (qagh "gagh," vImum "I taste
>it")
>
> qagh vIwaH "I try out the gagh [to see how it tastes]" (vIwaH "I taste
>it")
>
>(If you're not a Klingon but plan on tasting gagh, by the way, I suggest
>you find a good restaurant and stick to {qagh wagh} "expensive gagh.")
mu'mey chu' vIparHa'! Dun!
Qermaq