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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] "Knitting" in Klingon
- From: "De'vID" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] "Knitting" in Klingon
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 03:38:59 +0100
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On 29 Jun 2013 02:13, "ghunchu'wI'" <<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Jun 27, 2013, at 2:57 AM, "De'vID" <<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> I recently came across someone using *{vaDmuv} as a verb meaning "to knit" (e.g., a sweater) on Twitter. [...]<br>
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> I tracked the origin to the now defunct <a href="http://tweetinklingon.com">tweetinklingon.com</a> web site, which was part of the promotions for the Star Trek Online game. It saved the original English for each mock-Klingon tweet so readers could "translate" what was sent. Those records are no longer available, but based on other samples of its output I am pretty sure that "tlhIngan mu' vaDmuv" came from "Klingon word for join", with the English input being "Anybody know the Klingon word for join, knitting or knitter?"</p>
<p dir="ltr">This story about knitting came up on Facebook recently, and I drew Marc Okrand's attention to it. Here's what he had to say:<br>
<Maltz isn't on FaceBook, but I talked with him about it.</p>
<p dir="ltr">He said he does not knit and, in fact, wasn't quite sure what knitting was. I explained. He said there is a word perhaps best translated as "weave" and that he has heard of using sticks when doing a certain kind of weaving, but he didn't know a name for that other than weaving. (There are apparently other types of weaving also.)</p>
<p dir="ltr">The word for "weave" (verb) is {<b>nIq</b>}.</p>
<p dir="ltr">For the sticks used when doing whatever this weaving technique is, he's only heard {<b>Hut'Inmey</b><b> tIq</b>}.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Hope this helps.></p>
<p dir="ltr">-- <br>
De'vID<br>
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