tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun May 14 19:10:36 2000
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Re: KLBC: Hoch DaHjaj mu'mey vIwaH.
Steven Boozer wrote:
> 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,
Not true!
> 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)"
Thanks for pointing this out. I don't always remember that there are words for
such things. Like when I was trying to translate the word 'clock' one time, and
got reamed for coming up with /poHwI'/. Well, 'chronometer' didn't come to mind,
and I had looked under 'watch', 'clock', etc. This time, I was working from the
word of the day, and didn't remember the other possibilities. If I had looked up
'play' in my computer dictionary, I would have noticed /chu'/. I'm not headed to
Qo'noS any time soon, so it's still relatively safe for me to blunder this way.
- tuv'el