[89526] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: chIjwI' tIQ bom: 'ay' wej
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh)
Fri Sep 9 02:12:12 2011
From: Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh <qeslagh@hotmail.com>
To: <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 16:00:52 +1000
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ghItlhpu' Voragh, jatlh:
> I've always thought of *{joqwI''a'} as a sail.
Intriguing. I can see it. It strikes me more as a visual descriptor
rather than one of purpose, but in a poem like the Rime it could work.
> I suppose {joqwI'} could also mean a sail. The augmentative doesn't
> really matter as the first part of a ship you'd see coming over the
> horizon would be its flags, pennants or sails before the ship proper.
Another good point. I might think about changing that, then.
jang Felix:
> Water-related terms and textile-related ones... ...high on my list
> of desired new canon!
I'm not over-fussed on textiles (DIrHey serves me for most purposes)
but I'm with you on the water-related terms. We've been explicitly
told the Klingons were historically a seafaring people, and it'd be
nice to see how the "modern" spacefaring vocabulary derives, or not,
from whatever Klingon has in the way of nautical vocab.
QeS 'utlh
