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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Mar 10 18:43:47 1994
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From: awest@netlink.nix.com (Amy West)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 94 14:49:10 PST
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On Wed 9 Mar 94 20:05, Mark E. Shoulson writes:
> 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.
This reminds me of the word for "light". We have words for
"twilight", "moonlight" which are nouns, but no simple noun for
"light" as in what comes from a lamp. There is only the verb, "wov".
I see something of a pattern here.
Amy
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