tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 12 11:00:08 2000
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Re: KLBC: Hoch DaHjaj mu'mey vIwaH.
tuv'el wrote:
: reH QoQ tlheghHomvetlhDaq 'egh vIreHHa'.
: "I always misplay the 'egh in that passage of music."
Since it appears that tuv'el doesn't have a copy of KGT, a quick vocabulary
note is in order here. {reH} is the wrong word to use. The single English
word "play" corresponds to at least three different words in Klingon:
{reH} "play (in general)" [i.e. "The children are playing outside."]
{Quj} "play (a game)
{chu'} "play (a musical instrument)"
According to Soqra'tIS who attended, at {qep'a' loSDIch} Krankor asked Marc
Okrand "if he was right in using {reH} for playing his guitar (which he did
regularly--both playing the guitar and referring to it using {reH}, that is).
He said he hoped it was right because if it wasn't he had nothing else. MO
replied that {reH} did not mean play in the sense of playing a musical
instrument... He didn't volunteer a better word though." Now from KGT (p.74)
we know that that word is {chu'}.
And, if you're a musician, KGT provides more precise ways to refer to playing
particular types of musical instruments: {Heng} "finger (holes, strings) to
vary sound", {pang} "pluck" or {yach} "strum" a stringed instrument, {rey}
"squeeze and stretch out (windbag)", {SuS} "blow (horn, pipe)", and {tlhaw'}
"hit with fist (drum)".
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons