tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Oct 25 10:23:29 2007
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Re: chainsaw?
- From: McArdle <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: chainsaw?
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:22:29 -0700 (PDT)
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--- Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:
> mI'qey:
> >I encountered the other day a need (if you can call
> it
> >that) to translate the word "chainsaw" into
> Klingon.
> >After juggling various possibilities, I settled on
> >{pe'meH mIr}. Does this seem reasonable to you?
>
> That's not bad. Modeled on {pe'meH taj} "cutting
> knife" no doubt:
>
I only wish I knew canon that well. Actually, I
constructed it out of whole cloth, based on dictionary
lookups and my understanding of the way verbs with
{-meH} can be used to modify nouns. No doubt, since
I've read KGT, the example of {pe'meH taj} contributed
to that understanding, but I didn't specifically
recall it or model {pe'meH mIr} on it.
It's nice to learn, though, that my invention has a
canonical parallel.
qatlho'
--mI'qey
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