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RE: yoShommey



Just another guess:

How about {chIS 'ach nItHa'.}? That way, the color reference is only white,
but there is the suggestion that it is not a pure, plain color.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Boozer [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 6:28 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: yoShommey
>
>
> Quvar:
> : A friend of mine asked me if there's a way to say that something is
> : spotted, speckled or mottled. Like a Tiger perhabs, he didn't tell me no
> : context.
>
> I'm not sure that we can yet, but I'll give it a shot.  One way
> that occurs to
> me - and I admit it's not very good - is to use {nguv} "be dyed,
> be stained, be
> tinted" with {-Ha'}, in the sense of "done wrongly" (perhaps by nature?)
> *{nguvHa'} "be mis-dyed, be mis-stained, be mis-tinted" together with the
> color.  E.g.:
>
>   chay' nguv Qugh targh?
>   What color is Kruge's targ?
>
>   chIS 'ej nguvHa'.
>   A funny shade of white.  A mottled white.
>
> Perhaps {-Ha'} can be used with the color term directly:
>
>   chISHa' Qugh targh.
>
> Both of these are more likely to be understood as "off-white" or
> even "used to
> be white but it isn't any more", if Kruge dyed {nguvmoH} his
> pet's fur in order
> to disguise it.
>
> Another option: You might use {-law'} "apparently, seemingly":
>
>   chISlaw' Qugh targh.
>
> However, this can also be understood as "I think Kruge's targ is
> white" (as if
> you're not quite certain).
>
> The only unambiguous way way would be to describe it exactly:
> "Kruge's targ is
> white with a few patches of darkish fur", or to compare it with some other
> well-known spotted object or animal:
>
>   Doq Qugh targh 'ej tera' *tiger* rur.
>   Kruge's targ is orange/red and resembles a Terran tiger.
>
> This is also one way Klingons indicate other colors beyond the
> four main ones:
>
>   Doq 'ej Qaj wuS rur
>   be orange/red and resemble kradge lips.  (st.klingon)
>   ["The lips of the kradge are presumably a particular shade of brown."]
>
>   Doq 'ej beqpuj rur
>   (it) is Doq and resembles beqpuj (an orange mineral) KGT
>
> BTW, we know that there are spotted targs - B'Elanna once said
> that someone's
> splotchy skin (as the result of an illness) made them look "like a spotted
> targ" - we just don't know how Klingons describe them.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Voragh
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
>



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