tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 24 09:48:09 2002
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Re: chuvmey ("leftovers")
Am 23.07.2002 22:51:30, schrieb Steven Boozer <[email protected]>:
>chuvmey leftovers (n.)
>
>"If, for some reason, the {qagh} cannot be consumed before they all die,
...
>this is a common way to serve leftovers." (KGT:87)
This is very interesting, but it's about leftovers, not about {chuvmey}.
>Klingon? AFAIK it isn't in (American) English.
My english-german dictioanry says:
"leftover I adj. ... II noun ..."
nothing about plural or singular.
>Okrand did, as an adjective (or is it a participle in English?): {Soj chuv}
I read this like an adjective (a {wot}) "food (be) leftover"
Just lika any other adj./wot: Soj bIr "food (be) cold"
>If the singular is used in Klingon, it may be as grammatical argot or
>jargon - {tlhach mu'mey} in Klingon - only: e.g. a leftover {chuv}, a noun
>{DIp}, a verb {wot}, etc.
>I wish Maltz had given us more information on how to discuss grammar in
>Klingon!
Maybe Klingons just *don't* discuss grammar, just as they didn't care for medecine and anatomy for a
long time. It's enough to distinguish between verbs and nouns and affixes, but I think a klingon would
not waste his time to seperate all the "other words", the word that are "left over".
wotmey DIpmey je DaqIlDI' chuv 'op mu'mey. vaj chuvwI'mey bIH ponglu'.
Quvar.