[88382] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: wovmoHwI'mey yupma'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Mon Dec 6 12:23:32 2010
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 11:16:09 -0600
In-Reply-To: <BAY127-W238CB294605211487E0BCFAA290@phx.gbl>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
QeS:
>>Also, since {'eH} is an exclamation the use of {-choH} on it is
>jarring.
>>What about saying {rInchoH} "it becomes accomplished" instead?
>jang Voragh, jatlh:
>>I don't have my TKD with me, but I thought {'eH} is a quality that can
>>also be used as an exclamation (similar to the adverbial {tugh} "soon",
>>also used as an exclamation: "Hurry up! Be quick about it!"). Would
>>someone check the TKD glossary to see if {'eH} is labeled "v."?
QeS:
>Nope, it's glossed "ready (excl)". This is one thing that's usually a
>hassle to new Klingon-speakers, IME - the lack of a generic verb for "to
>be ready, to be prepared".
... and to careless typists keyboarding the TKD glossary into their computer!
>>or if we must use {-rup}:
>> DaH DIngwI' vIQujrup!
>> I'm ready to play dreydl now!
>
>Hmm. That gives some different options in the second line. How about this
>(using {'un lam} "pot dirt" for "clay" [...]
Oh, I like *{'un lam} for "(potter's) clay" -- it fits with the other {'un} noun-noun phrases: {'un naQ} "stirring/mixing stick", {'un quD} "artificially produced *qud*". And you can append various qualities when it's being used in the pottery: {yIQ} "be wet", {Hum} "be sticky", {jeD} "be thick/dense/viscous", etc.
> [...] - while I still think {lam} alone is fine,
Appropriate, since it's apparently a pun on Spanish *lama* "mud, slime".
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
