tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Nov 10 03:09:35 1997

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  If anyone out there still has my Klingon to English computer program written
in C, I have updated its dictionary file to include the new words in KTG.
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  Re: {quwargh} as a spelling of `Quark'
  "William H. Martin" <[email protected]> wrote (Subject: Re:
ST:EXP Transmission):-
> Note that {uw} is one of those letter combinations that never happens in
> Klingon as the end of a syllable. ...
  Quark is not a Klingon, and surely by now Klingons have had to transcribe so
many non-Klingon names into pIqaD that their people would be used to seeing
un-Klingon sound sequences in foreign names, and they would spell it {qwarq},
same as English-speakers have had to get used to strange letter sequences such
as the initial `tb-' in Tbilisi (capital of Georgia in the Caucasus).
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  Re: loghDaq lupDujHom qoDDaq
  "William H. Martin" <[email protected]> wrote (Subject: Re:
ST:EXP Transmission):-
> Also, since shuttlecrafts usually travel through space,
  Perhaps {loghDaq} was included to emphasize to landlubbers that here is a
chance to taste space travel.
  And, re {qoddaQ}: Thank goodness at last for a way to distinguish "in" from
"on"/"at" without wordy constructions with {ngaS} = "contain".
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  Neal Schermerhorn <[email protected]> wrote (Subject: Re: plans):-
> Note: Complete refutation of QAO contained herein!
  Sorry: what is `QAO'?
> ghItlh David Crowell "The human knows who took the money" ...
  Here we come again to the lack of a Klingon for the interrogative adjective
"which?". For a main clause `which?' question "Which ship needs a new
torpedo-tube?" would this be OK? {chetvi' chu' ghajnISbogh Duj'e' ngu' nuq?}
"What is the identity of the ship that needs a new torpedo-tube?". Perhaps for
an indirect question "Maltz knows which ship needs a new torpedo-tube?" would
this be OK? {chetvi' chu' ghajnISbogh Duj'e' ngu' Sov matlh}?
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  The KGT word {lung} for a lizardlike animal is taken from Chinese!, e.g.
{Heilungkiang} = "Black Dragon River" (the Chinese name for the River Amur).
  The word `kris' for a wavy-bladed dagger (Okrandized to {QIS} in KGT), and
the weapon that it stands for, are both taken straight from Malaya!
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  Sorry, but what is parHol?
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  Has anyone yet heard how to make a generalized adverbial? I.e. if {X} is any
desired stative verb "is X", how to say e.g. "he writes X-ly"? {chech} = "is
drunk", but how to say "This ship handles drunkenly when going astern. Check
its control wiring."?
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  KGT gives {jor} = "explode". This, I suppose, *{jorwI'} = "an explosive"
instead of having to use {peng} for ordinary immobile explosive devices like I
have seen before.
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  KGT gives {lupwI'} = "jitney", "bus". (A jitney is a sort of passenger
vehicle.) Thus, presumably, (a) {lup} = "transport physically" as distinct
from {jol} = "transport by beaming"; (b) At long last we have a word for a
ground vehicle instead of having to use {Duj} for all vehicles alike.
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  Is there a verb "pertain to, relate to"? If this verb is X, then {B X} would
mean "it is B-ic", "it is B-al". This meaning is not always the same as
ordinary ownership such as Klingon expresses by plain apposition. Compare the
French constructions {un fusil de Z} = "a gun belonging to Z, or made from the
substance Z" and {un fusil a` Y} = "a gun which fires Y, or for doing Y".
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  Without making two sentences of it, is there any way agreed yet of saying
e.g. "I had to take 3 loads of garbage out of the ship in which you fled."?

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