tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 18 21:33:09 1999
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Re: HIQaH
- From: [email protected] (Christiane Scharf)
- Subject: Re: HIQaH
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 06:23:22 +0200
jatlh charghwI':
>On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 12:22:22 -0500 Terrence Donnelly
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> At 10:50 AM 8/17/99 CDT, Marc wrote:
>> >
>> >> {lojmIt} for "door", I don't know what to call the device that
>> >> unlocks it. I could coin {ngaQwI'} or {ngaQHa'wI'}, but then
>> >> I've violated my design goal of using only simple canon words.
>
>Perhaps you have overly extended goals. If there is no simple
>word for what you want, then you need a description of it. When
>I've imagined this, I've considered that the lock is the ngaQwI'
>and the key is the ngaQHa'wI' because it is the lock which locks
>the door and it is the key that unlocks it.
{ngaQ} is "be locked". The thing that locks the door would be a
{ngaQmoHwI'}, the thing that unlocks it would be a {ngaQHa'moHwI'}.
>But that's just my
>own perverse way of looking at it. I'm sure it would not work as
>a general use of the words.
>
>Likely, whatever you use, you need to explicitly explain your
>choice of words and explain why you have chosen them in the
>absence of something better.
qeSchu' charghwI'. ghu' yIDel: SoQtaH lojmIt. poSmoHlaHbe' SuvwI'.
poSmoHlaHmeH jan le' SamnIS. janvamvaD {ngaQHa'moHwI'} (maybe even the
simpler {SoQHa'moHwI'}?) ponglu'. baS naQHey mach 'oH.
>
>> >if this isn't a mediaval kind of setting, you could have the
>> >door's computer scan the permit of the adventurer. slight problem(?)
>>
>> Do'Ha'; it _is_ a "medieval" setting (or anyway, a pre-technological
>> phase of Klingon history).
>
>Don't assume that medieval technology isn't technology. A
>stone-headed bludgeon counts as technology. Technology existed
>long before electronics.
Since ter'eS wants simple vocab, I cannot recomend that the hero should just
get an 'obmaQ, avoiding annoying key problems... Maybe s/he could use a
fallen Sor as a rammer... Hmmm, if s/he is an experienced burglar, a bended
mavjop would probably do the job, too, though it might be surprising to find
a paper clip in a "medieval" setting. And I wouldn't call "paper clip" one
of the basic words... Or try the little chemist's method (as once used by
qerq HoD): find some useful tlhIlmey, maybe ngat, and some kind of ngaSwI'
to construct a jorwI' and BOOM! Or get two sticks of Sor Hap, rub them at
each other until a qul starts to meQ, take a burning Sech and set the door
on fire. And last, but not least, for the hero with absolutely no technical
skills, the find-the-guard-and-force-him-to-open-the-door-method: 'avwI' Sam
SuvwI'. lojmIt poSmoH 'avwI' 'e' raD SuvwI'. lojmIt poSmoHta'DI' 'avwI',
'avwI' HoH SuvwI'. (That's the one with the simplest vocab, I think)
>
>> -- ter'eS
>>
>
>charghwI'
>
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