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RE: KLBC: jaj mu'mey vI'lo'.

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: KLBC: jaj mu'mey vI'lo'.
• Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 12:12:36 -0600
• In-Reply-To: <CBD6795F70A5D211B2B20008C733321AE0B9DC@INFINITI2>

pagh:
: I will make one general comment, though. The word <jan> does not
: *specifically* mean "musical instrument". It is a general word meaning
: "device", and <QoQ jan> is the specific term for a musical instrument. 
: See KGT page 74 for more. It says in particular that <QoQ jan> is seldom
: shortened to just <jan>.

For those interested, {jan} "device" also appears in several compound nouns
referring to machinery from the Klingon Bird-of-Prey poster:

  baHjan                 launcher 
   ('otlh) peng baHjan    (photon) torpedo launcher 

  botjan                 shield(s) 
   begh botjan            deflector shield(s) 

  Saqjan                 landing gear 

and was used in SkyBox S19 to refer to cloaking devices:

  janmey ngo' lulo'lu'DI' pIj jabbI'ID nISpu' woj
  Older models were susceptible to radiation. 

The diminutive {janHom} "little device" (i.e. gadget, gizmo) showed up in
the Hallmark BoP ornament commercial, where it was translated *very* loosely:

  Qapqu' wovmoHbogh janHommey
  It even has working lights!


-- 
Voragh                       
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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