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From: shoulson@ctr.columbia.edu (Mark E. Shoulson)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 09:05:12 -0500
In-Reply-To: Amy West's message of Wed, 09 Mar 94 16:31:12 PST <Pm5Xic2w165w@ne
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>From: awest@netlink.nix.com (Amy West)
>Date: Wed, 09 Mar 94 16:31:12 PST
>On Tue 8 Mar 94 22:48, Mark E. Shoulson writes:
>>>if I were just writing it now.. but this was written some time
>>>ago. I guess "ghum" is OK, but a simple noun for "sound" would
>>>be nice.
>> Well, I didn't use it since it's a new word from the recent HolQeD,
>> but there is QoQ, which is given as "musical sound". Make of it what
>> you will.
>Actually, I think I like "ghum" better, if it can also mean "sound
>which alerts you (to do something)" and not just refer to an
>emergency alarm sound. I knew about "QoQ" but wouldn't have thought
>of using it. However, if a Klingon hears and unidentified sound, I
>would still like to know how he would say "What was that
>sound/noise?"
I, too, think "ghum" works really well in this case. I suppose I could
make some argument that a sound to a Klingon is either musical (QoQ), alarm
(ghum), or speech (QIch), but I don't believe that either. For your
particular sentence, though, I imagine a Klingon would say "nuq vIQoy
jay'!?" using the usual avoidance of the English bias toward nouns when
verbs will do the trick. Still, it would be nice to have a general word
for "sound", I expect.
>Amy
>awest@netlink.nix.com
~mark
