tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Mar 17 12:45:51 2015
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] I found a mistake in one of the new Klingon words
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Like a leather “chamois cloth” used to dry cars by wiping the excess water off rather than absorbing it like cloth towels. Cf.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamois_leather";>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamois_leather</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Robyn Stewart [mailto:[email protected]]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 17, 2015 2:01 PM<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">jIQochbe’chu’. It never occurred to me that a towel might be a skin dryer. I read it exactly as André does.<br>
I like that you are reading and interpreting and thinking about what words mean, so you understand rather than substitute meanings. Keep it up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> André Müller [<a href="mailto:[email protected]";>mailto:[email protected]</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> March 17, 2015 9:32<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">I think it's not a mistake. We know that {DIr} can also refer to an animal's hide, or a piece of cloth made out of a hide, {DIrmey} refers to skins used for clothing. And in {QaDmoHwI' DIr} the first part doesn't necessarily
have to be the possessor, it can also be a modifier. So I'd interprete the word, very literally translated, as a "dry-maker skin".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-CA">Perhaps this tells us that Klingon towels are indeed made of animal skin, perhaps with the hairs still attached.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">2015-03-17 17:26 GMT+01:00 Anthony Appleyard <<a href="mailto:[email protected]"; target="_blank">[email protected]</a>>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://www.speakklingon.info/about-klingon/new-klingon-words/Q/"; target="_blank">http://www.speakklingon.info/about-klingon/new-klingon-words/Q/</a><br>
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says that<strong> QaDmoHwI' DIr</strong> is a noun meaning "towel". But the compound is in the wrong order, and means "the skin of that which makes (things) dry". "That which makes the skin dry" would be
<b>DIr QaDmoHwI' </b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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