tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Mar 20 13:33:19 1999
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Re: Fresh Food in Space
ja' quljIb:
>Okay, I rewrote and "spell-checked" my question.
>
>chu'qa'meH muD bIQ je, naHmey qeng'a' tlhIngan Duj?
"In order for the atmosphere and water to resume being new, do Klingon
ships [or does a Klingon ship] carry fruits/vegetables?"
maj. This question is clear and grammatically unassailable, with only a
minor and trivial ambiguity as to the number of ships being considered.
The next sentence clarifies that you're talking about multiple ships, so
you could have said {Dujmey} here.
{naH} usually refers to the part of a plant which is eaten as food. I'm
pretty sure you're not interested in the "food" part of the idea. Perhaps
{tI} "vegetation" would be a more appropriate word.
>ghagh luqeng net Sov 'ach Ha'DIbaHmey je qeng'a'?
"One knows that they carry {qagh}, but do they carry animals and?"
When using {je} this way, it is placed *after* the verb. See TKD 5.3.
{Ha'DIbaHmey qeng'a' je?} "do they also carry animals?"
>bIQDep ngaSwI'mey pIpyuS joq geng tlhIngan may'Dujmey 'e' vIleghlaH.
"I can see that Klingon battle cruisers carry fish containers and/or pipius."
I thought you didn't want to say "see" literally for this idea.
>Is there a Klingon phrase for "aquaculture"?
If you're referring to herding fish, there isn't an obvious way to say
it. The Klingon vocabulary has terms for agriculture, but animals are
apparently *hunted*. Take a look at the verb {Sep} "breed" -- I can't
find the reference to breeding animals in KGT right now, but I'm pretty
sure it's there somewhere.
><bIQDep Hol> fish science perhaps?
{Hol} is "language". {bIQDep Hol} seems to refer to the squeaks and
whistles produced by dolphins and whales. The word for science is {QeD}.
>Or better yet <wIjbogh bIQDep Hol> science of fish that are
>farmed? Would Klingons even bother with such specialized fields?
Accounting for the {Hol/QeD} confusion, you've said "the science of fish
who farm." For "fish that are farmed", you might be able to say something
like {bIQDep wIjlu'bogh}, but I don't know if the verb {wIj} "farm" takes
an object.
-- ghunchu'wI'