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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] "Knitting" in Klingon

De'vID ([email protected])



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On 29 Jun 2013 02:13, &quot;ghunchu&#39;wI&#39;&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
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&gt; On Jun 27, 2013, at 2:57 AM, &quot;De&#39;vID&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
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&gt;&gt; I recently came across someone using *{vaDmuv} as a verb meaning &quot;to knit&quot; (e.g., a sweater) on Twitter. [...]<br>
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&gt; 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 &quot;translate&quot; what was sent. Those records are no longer available, but based on other samples of its output I am pretty sure that &quot;tlhIngan mu&#39; vaDmuv&quot; came from &quot;Klingon word for join&quot;, with the English input being &quot;Anybody know the Klingon word for join, knitting or knitter?&quot;</p>
<p dir="ltr">This story about knitting came up on Facebook recently, and I drew Marc Okrand&#39;s attention to it. Here&#39;s what he had to say:<br>
&lt;Maltz isn&#39;t on FaceBook, but I talked with him about it.</p>
<p dir="ltr">He said he does not knit and, in fact, wasn&#39;t quite sure what knitting was.  I explained.  He said there is a word perhaps best translated as &quot;weave&quot; and that he has heard of using sticks when doing a certain kind of weaving, but he didn&#39;t know a name for that other than weaving.  (There are apparently other types of weaving also.)</p>
<p dir="ltr">The word for &quot;weave&quot; (verb) is {<b>nIq</b>}.</p>
<p dir="ltr">For the sticks used when doing whatever this weaving technique is, he&#39;s only heard {<b>Hut&#39;Inmey</b><b> tIq</b>}.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Hope this helps.&gt;</p>
<p dir="ltr">-- <br>
De&#39;vID<br>
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