tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon May 05 12:05:20 2003
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KLBC: {cha'}?
- From: David Hand <[email protected]>
- Subject: KLBC: {cha'}?
- Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 13:00:19 -0400
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Hello:
I've just finished transcribing all three printed Klingon->English
dictionaries, so that I can begin to collate them for myself. Next will
be to check them for typos; after that will be to look into the slew of
words that are defined merely as "type of animal", and such, to see if
KGT has a better description in the body of the text.
But I was scanning through, and noticed a the word {cha'}, which as a
verb appears to mean "show, display (picture)". This is cute, because I
can't find any such noun for "picture".
A non-Klingonist friend suggested that perhaps the idea of "picture" is
included in {cha'}. So to show you the picture, just {SoHvaD vIcha'}?
Perhaps to *look* at the picture, I show it to myself: {vIcha'egh}? (Or
would that be to show myself as a picture, to someone else?)
But none of this solves the real problem: what if I want to do other
things to pictures rather than display them? What if I want to take
(in either of that word's senses) a picture? Or burn it? Or give it to
you? I can't find nouns for picture. The closest I get are {bey'},
{wIy}, and {HaSta}, only the last of which seems vaguely appropriate.
--
David "cogent" Hand
<http://davidhand.com/> <mailto:[email protected]> <icq:4321282>