tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Apr 20 19:25:59 2003
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RE: qatlh vay' vInuQ :)
> > /qon/ seems to be more of an audio/musical concept, IMHO, so I'm not
sure
> > that's what you want.
>
> /qon/ "record" is also used for "compose" (Klingon songs are considered to
> already exist; the composer simply finds out what they are and records
> them.) I'm not certain that it can be used outside of song
> references, and
> for that I apologize. But given that we know that /ghItlh/ means
> the act of
> writing, not the thinking up of new material, and /gher/ means to compile
> pre-existing data, there's a good chance that /qon/ would apply to
> message-writing, too.
Canon example:
qun qon charghwI'pu''e'.
History is written by the victors. [TKW p179]
/qon/, /gher/, and /ghItlh/ are explained in HolQeD Mar 99, p8-9
I don't have that HolQeD in electronic form and don't want to type it all,
you can read it yourself, if you don't have it, shame on you.
That HolQeD states that /qon/ is not just for songs and poems.
It is possible to /qon/ or /gher/ a message. Usually it is /gher/. I am
not positive which would be used for SuSvaj's sentence. But the point is,
it is possible.
DloraH