[84558] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: be'nalwI' naH yotlh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sangqar)
Wed Apr 30 23:16:21 2008
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:15:03 -0600
From: Sangqar <Sangqar@hotmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <05C975F4-CBE3-42DA-B51C-57EF721ED2EA@alcaco.net>
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> qayajchu'be'....
jIQagh. qechwIj'e' qalughmoHDI' bIlugh.
> Du'na' Delbe'ba' Doq. Du'Hom neH lughaj. qech Dayajbe'qu''a'?
> QIj'eghchu' mu' 'e' vIQub.
This part will have to be in English, since obviously my Klingon
circumlocutions didn't get the idea across.
What I didn't understand was what he meant by {Du'Hom}. Either it was a
new word I hadn't heard of yet, or it was a coinage of his. If it was a
coinage, I wanted him to explain it in more detail. Did he mean a
vegetable garden? Did he mean a small field? What precisely did he mean?
When an augmentative or diminutive is not one for which we have a canon
definition, there's a range of possible meanings.
Mainly I'm trying to talk about things - anything - to get my Klingon
back to a decent level.
