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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - Shopping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Roney, Jr. PKT)
Wed Nov 2 16:16:56 2011
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Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 16:16:39 -0400
From: "Michael Roney, Jr. PKT" <nahqun@gmail.com>
To: tlhIngan Hol mailing list <tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org>
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On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Qov <robyn@flyingstart.ca> wrote:
>> sunglasses - mIn QanwI' nguv
>
> I guessed mIn QanwI'
Those would be what I wear every day.
Glad to have a word for them now.
>> pencil - ghojmoH ghItlhwI'
>
> Interesting perspective of how Marc views pencils.
Indeed.
>> razor - rol taj
>
> I guessed pob taj and then laughed at rol taj, because well, I'm never go=
ing
> to need a rol taj. =A0(petamchoH! be'Daq pob 'oHtaH!)
LOL! As a male I just accepted the word.
>> towel - QaDmoHwI' DIr
>
> I have just called it a QaDmoHwI'
The {DIr} is interesting here.
Obviously 21st Century Humans don't use animal skins to dry themselves.
But it makes me wonder if Klingons do (or did).
This may be an actual Klingon term...
>> cassette - wab qoSta' 'aplo'
>
> I had no guess and nothing but open mouthed astonishment at the least use=
ful
> word in the list engendering two new Klingon words. Oh Marc, what is the
> word for punchcard? cuniform writing? I guess we already have stone table=
t.
I guess we know how long ago Eurotalk made their first software...
>> television - HaSta jIH
>
> That's weird. =A0HaSta and jIH sort of mean the same thing.
I found it interesting as well.
>
>> saucepan - Se'tu'
>
> Damn, Klingon is just like English for me now: multiple words for "cooking
> vessel" and I have no idea which one is which or why. I call them all
> saucepans, and when the recipe says to use a dutch oven, or a frying pan =
or
> a stockpot or whatever, I just put the food in one that is big enough and
> cook it.
I also can't keep them straight.
>> batteries - 'ul 'aplo'mey
>
> Good name.
We see {'aplo'} in both "cassete" and "batteries".
I don't have it listed in my notes.
~'anan naHQun
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