tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 15 13:25:58 1999
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Re: KLBC:convert
pagh:
> as I understand it from the recent startrek.klingon post, means
> "a noise", and not "noise" in general. You also can't put a noun
Here's how Okrand used it on startrek.klingon:
'arlogh wab Qoylu'pu'?
How many times has someone heard the sound?
How many times has the sound been heard?
I don't know whether a single example is enough to say {wab} *cannot* mean "noise in general", only that in this one frozen idiom (used to inquire about the time of day) it refers to a specific sound. We don't even know what kind of sound Klingons used to mark the passage of the hours - Okrand was being intentionally vague.
Quvar muHwI':
: I dunno if you speak German, but some other people do:
: If I got it right, {wab} is "Geräusch" but not "Lärm" - is that
: correct? In english, the difference is not very clear to me.
If pagh is right - and my German isn't too rusty - *Geräusch* sounds right. But then, so does *Laut* according to my dictionary.
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons