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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Can you knot?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Thu Nov 13 10:05:04 2014

From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:04:51 +0000
In-Reply-To: <5463D1CD.9030308@gmx.de>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@kli.org

Lieven:
> After giving us the word for "knitting", Maltz just revealed another
> useful and related word: it's {meS} and means "knot", both as noun and
> verb. The object of the verb is the thing you use to make a knot, e.g.
> {tlhegh vImeS} - "I make a knot in the rope". To loosen the knot, simply
> say {meSHa'}.
> 
> Maltz also said that now that everyone knows the word {meS}, he can add
> that {meS} is a frequently used slang term for "encrypt". Similarly,
> {meSHa'} means "decrypt".

Since it's what I do, here are some related words:

bagh 		tie (v)
rar 		connect, attach (v)
nIq 		weave (v)

naw' 		access (v)
'ol		verify (v)
naw' 		access (n)
ngoq 		code (n)
ngoqDe'  	encoded message (n)
Hung buv 	[security clearance/classification?] (n)

And here are a couple of code related sentences/phrases:

  Hung buv rav: patlh Hut 
  classified level 9 and above (KBoP)

  DIvI' Se' wI'IjtaHvIS DaH ngoqDe' wIHevta'.
  We've just received an encoded message on the Federation frequency. (ST5 notes)

(BTW note the use of {'Ij} "listen" for [routine?] monitoring or "listening in" on enemy communications.  I might have used {Daq} "eavesdrop".)


--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons



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