[91441] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] beings capable of speech
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Felix Malmenbeck)
Tue Dec 27 05:51:18 2011
From: Felix Malmenbeck <felixm@kth.se>
To: De'vID jonpIn <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com>, KLI <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:50:47 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CA+7zAmMau0eTkAiQSVioE0t-nqP7AdRsMfUxZahtY=TfoAsONQ@mail.gmail.com>
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That article is available in electronic form here: http://klingonska.org/canon/search/?file=1999-09-holqed-08-3.txt&get=source
As you say, speaking of your 'aqroS in such a way would be rather strange.
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From: De'vID jonpIn [de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 11:28
To: KLI
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] beings capable of speech
De'vID:
>> But what about a body part a piece of talking furniture has,
>> which isn't exactly analogous to a humanoid (klingonoid?) body part.
>> Say, a {raS}'s {'aqroS}.
QeS 'utlh:
> I actually think {'aqroS} is a bit different. To me anything can have an
> {'aqroS}, even humans; I'd be happy to say {'aqroSwIjDaq ba'taH mIl'oD} "a
> sabre bear is sitting on top of me". It's an area of your body, but not a
> discrete body part as such. So I think you could talk about {'aqroSmey},
> but not {'aqroSDu'}.
It's on occasions like this that I really wish I had HolQeD in
electronic form. {'aqroS} comes from HQ8.3, and my notes say that it
refers to the underside of a table, or more generally the interior
underside of the top of something. A table {'aqroS} is the back face
of its top (or {yor}).
I would not understand {'aqroSwIjDaq ba'taH mIl'oD} at all. Well,
actually, I would: it sounds like the sabre bear has ripped you apart
and is sitting on the underside of your torso or something. Unless
I'm misunderstanding something, I can't imagine what a Human's or
Klingon's {'aqroS} might be.
Maybe that was another bad example. Let's say you have a talking
dresser drawer or closet, would its doors be {lojmItmey} or
{lojmItDu'}?
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De'vID
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