[85281] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: Snow?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Thu Feb 12 16:16:50 2009
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "'tlhingan-hol@kli.org'" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:15:05 -0600
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naHQun asks:
>So I know how to use (peD).
>I can say "It's snowing" or "It snowed".
Presumably the verb {peD} works like the verb {SIS} "rain". FYI for any beginners:
"It rained a few times during the weekend, so we were put into the situation to discuss it. {SIS}. {SISqu'}. {SIStaH}. {SISchoH}. All correct. {SISlu'}, although grammatically correct, he didn't particularly like... You can also give it an object and say things like "the clouds rained down cats and dogs"... or something like that; you get the idea. But when Marc and I went outside and drops of water were falling on us, he looked up and simply said '{SIS}'."
[DloraH, personal conversation with Mark Okrand, May 1998]
>But how do I talk about the white stuff on the ground?
{yavDaq tulu' Hap chIS! nuq 'oH?}
>What I don't know, is how to talk about snow the noun.
Well, there's the noun {chuch} "ice" and the verbs {bIr} "be cold", {taD} "be frozen", {tet} "melt" and {yIQ} "be wet".
You could try *{chuchHom} but you would have to explain yourself or people might think you're talking about ice cubes. The only other think I can think of at the moment is {bIQ tet} "frozen water" - but how would that be different from {chuch} "ice"?
An obvious work-around is to describe snow indirectly or allude to it:
peDtaHmo' Dat chIS yav.
but that doesn't really answer your question.
>(Rain is different as we have a word for water. But the raindrops?)
I imagine it works just like snowflakes. <g>
--
Voragh
Canon Master of the Klingons
