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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Cataloging idioms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Fri May 5 13:21:50 2017
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From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 17:21:45 +0000
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FYI the Klingon wiki has a list of idioms:
https://www.kli.org/wiki/idiom
but it's not complete. For exemple, it doesn't include {wa'maH wej} or {wa' wa' wa'} (which were new to me).
--Voragh
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SuStel
> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2017 11:21 AM
>
> Found a few more:
>
> 'IwwIj jeD law' 'IwlIj jeD puS I am much stronger than you (PK)
>
> jISum I am in touch with my inner self (a philosophical statement) (HolQeD
> 7:4)
>
> Soj matter, concern, affair (HolQeD 12:3, but maybe earlier?)
>
>
> On 5/5/2017 12:13 PM, SuStel wrote:
> Excellent! Thanks. These things are really hard to track down if you
> haven't been keeping up with them.
>
> On 5/5/2017 11:55 AM, Felix Malmenbeck wrote:
>
> narghpu' 'eb
> = "it's too late"
>
> DoS chIl.
> = "digress"
>
> SuD veqlargh mInDu'.
> = "Someone's jealous."
>
> SenwI' rIlwI' je
> = "everybody, everything"
>
> vaDjaj yaDDu'lIj!
> ~ good fortune wishes
>
> The article that introduces finger words is kind of a goldmine.
>
> Not sure if <jIr!> ("Whoop-dee-doo!") would qualify as an
> idiom.
>
>
>
> fre 5 maj 2017 kl. 17:47 skrev SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name
> <mailto:sustel@trimboli.name> >:
>
>
> I'm updating my personal dictionary and touching up the
> section for
> idioms, which I never gave the attention it needed. I'm
> wondering if
> I've got them all.
>
> There are all the idioms in KGT, then there are the
> following from
> newsgroup posts/HolQeD articles:
>
> 'arlogh Qoylu'pu'
> pumDI'
> tIngvo' 'evDaq chanDaq
>
> Are there any other known idioms I missed?
>
>
>
> --
> SuStel
> http://trimboli.name
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