tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Sep 08 16:42:37 1997
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Re: "Cylinder"
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: "Cylinder"
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 16:42:30 -0700 (PDT)
At 04:04 PM 9/8/97 -0700, SI'IluD wrote:
>I need to describe a cylinder. I have used this phrase:
>
>gho jan tIq
A long circle device might be oval, but I can't see you getting much closer.
I think I threw my hands in the air in frustration while trying to describe
sushi preparation in Klingon, for lack of a word for cylinder. Also
consider ideas like {naQ rur} {HIvje' rur} and {gho bIH Dopmey'e'}. There's
also the geometric route: {He chong ghoSchugh gho Dochvam Del}. Yeah right.
Cylinder is a toughie.
>Also, is there any consensus that adding "tlhegh" to
>form a complex noun renders that as a row of the primary noun?
Well, {tlhegh} is "rope" or "line." I'd read {Dujtlhegh} as "painter" or
"sheet" or one of those other ropes you're not allowed to call a rope when
you're on a boat, rather than a line of vessels. If the noun were a sort of
being like {vetlhtlhegh} (shudder) I'd think of it as a marching formation.
If the noun were something that wouldn't logically have a line or rope
attached to it, then I'd probably start thinking "row of N." {beghtlhegh}
I'd read as "deflector array" without a lot of thought. But that's me.
There certainly isn't a consensus. We're KLINGONISTS after all. :)
Qov ([email protected])
Beginners' Grammarian