tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jun 03 23:14:12 2004
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Re: "creative"
- From: "De'vID jonwI'" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: "creative"
- Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 02:13:31 -0400
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Thorwald Peeters:
>I've been playing with {yuch mu'mey je} and considered the following:
What's that? Some kind of game (played at the qep'a')?
Thorwald Peeters:
>To create is {chenmoH}, creator is {chenmoHwI'}... but what would the word
>for "creative" be? Are there examples in {Hol} canon of other verbs that
>were so transformed? Or is "to create" good enough, when the {Hol} form is
>used?
Well, I searched through my word list for words ending
in "-ive", and didn't find that many of them. We
have <Doj> (v) "be impressive", but we don't have "to
impress"; we have <Duy'> (v) "be defective" which I
suppose we can relate to <QIH> (v) "damage, cause damage";
we have <jIj> (v) "cooperate, be cooperative"; we have
<lutlh> (v) "be primitive", <vaQ> (v) "be aggressive",
and <wagh> (v) "be expensive". None of these tell us
how "to create" and "to be creative" might be related in
Klingon. They might be entirely different words.
Thorwald Peeters:
>Some people (me included) turn words around without thinking, making the
>strangest combinations (spoonerisms). This often throws off the innocent
>bystander (or in this case the unknowing reader) and causes
>misunderstanding and healthy laughter (lol, rotfl) when the meaning and pun
>is understood. That is the kind of creativeness/creativity I want to
>capture into {tlhIngan Hol}
I also found <Qapchu'meH chuq> (n) "effective range".
Maybe you can work out something based on this pattern,
e.g. <to' vI'oghchu'meH jIpo'> "I am skilled at inventing
tactics" ("I am inventive when it comes to tactics");
<mu'mey vIwIvchu'meH jIval> "I am clever at perfectly
choosing words"; etc.
--
De'vID
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