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Re: Nine New Words from qep'a' 18
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Mon Aug 22 09:05:15 2011
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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:59:42 +0200
From: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcsOpIE3DvGxsZXI=?= <esperantist@gmail.com>
To: Josh Badgley <joshbadgley@hotmail.com>
Cc: "qunchuy@alcaco.net" <qunchuy@alcaco.net>, "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
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Good point, maybe Qo'noS has/had more than 1 moon, don't know.
- 'enDu
On Aug 22, 2011 2:55 PM, "Josh Badgley" <joshbadgley@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification...interesting point, although the Klingons
did apparently see fit to name their former moon, so who knows?
>
> yItaH 'ej yIchebtaH
>
> Josh
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Monday, August 22, 2011 7:37:02 am
> To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
> Cc: qunchuy@alcaco.net
> From: André Müller <esperantist@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Nine New Words from qep'a' 18
>
> Hi Josh,
> Yes, I understand it that way too. The following example sentence was
given:
> "Sol" 'oH tera' jul pong'e'. = The name of the Terran sun is "Sol".
> (I believe "Sol" is an English word here, not an English loanword in
> Klingon, as tera' or Human, for instance)
>
> So, yeah, it's a generic name.
> BUT, maybe the Klingons do not have a special word for their sun and just
> call it "sun", just like in English or German. After all, "Sol" just means
> "sun" in Latin.
>
> Greetings,
> - André (thinking about a Klingon name, maybe 'enDu? that'd match my Thai
> nickname...)
>
> 2011/8/22 Josh Badgley <joshbadgley@hotmail.com>
>
>> To be clear (as a newbie I want to make sure I've got it right) , jul
>> merely means "sun" in the generic sense...jIlugh'a'? So we do do not know
>> what name, if any, the Klingons have for their jul, right? Fascinating
>> stuff...
>>
>> yItaH 'ej yIchebtaH
>>
>> Josh
>>
>>
>> qovar
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Date: Sunday, August 21, 2011 11:20:01 pm
>> To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
>> From: ghunchu'wI' 'utlh <qunchuy
