[87666] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Hypothetical (reconstructed) vocabulary?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Doty)
Sun Jan 17 22:45:10 2010
In-Reply-To: <4B4D2270.9070304@trimboli.name>
From: Christopher Doty <suomichris@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:41:54 -0800
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Way behind the curve here, apparently (damn school....). A couple of
additions to the list, mentioned in TKD:
'ejDo' for starship
'ejyo' for Starfleet
Interestingly, we also have some hints of sound change or another
compound here, as Okrand reckons that <Do'> is probably an old word
for "space vessel" while the modern word is <Duj>. It thus seems like
there is either an old for fixed in <Do'>, or that, at some point, the
compound <'ejDo'> got flipped around to <Do''ej>, and then reduced to
<Duj>...
I was also thinking not long ago about the person prefixes, which,
despite being basically unanalyzable at present, still have some hints
of a more transparent system at some stage past. I'll try to remember
what I thought, and send it around for consideration...
Chris
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 17:31, David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name> wrote:
> On 1/12/2010 8:23 PM, Alex Greene wrote:
>>>> "That is not so" would be something like "qarbe' Dochvetlh,"
>>>> "lughbe' Dochvetlh" or "teHbe' Dochvetlh" if I were trying to
>>>> translate the above sentence. *vajHa' doesn't sit right with me
>>>> either.
>>>
>>> When Maltz balks at something, my impression is that he considers
>>> it "not the way a Klingon would say it," not that it doesn't make
>>> sense to him. /We/ completely lack any way to reason along these
>>> lines.
>>
>> It's okay to just say that it's M. Okrand balking at the
>> construction, and deciding that *vajHa' doesn't sit right with him.
>
> But how do you know that's what is happening? I don't believe it is.
> Okrand likes to include lots of little "'cause that's the way they say
> it" rules in the language, having nothing to do with whether it "sits
> right" with him. When he says Maltz balks, he means Maltz balks, not
> that he balks.
>
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