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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: jIj
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Newton)
Tue Dec 27 13:36:24 2011
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From: Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:35:46 +0100
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 16:01, qurgh lungqIj <qurgh@wizage.net> wrote:
> Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, December 26, 2011
>
> Klingon word: jIj
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: cooperate
Compare {yeq}.
TKD has "jij: cooperate (v)" in the K-E portion, and "cooperate (v):
yeq" in the E-K portion.
KGT seems to tell us about a distinction between the two; in the
description of the slang term {qang} ("always agree with [someone],
always go along with [someone], always cooperate with [someone]"), it
says:
Nonslang equivalents of {qang},
though lacking the negative connotation, are {reH
Qochbe'} ("always agree"; {reH,} "always"), {reH yeq} ("al-
ways cooperate"), and {reH jIj} ("always be cooperative").
Also, KGT's glossary has "{jIj}: be cooperative (v)" and "[be]
cooperative (v): {jIj}".
This implies that {yeq} is closer to "cooperate" and {jIj} to "be cooperative".
In my notes, I have "cooperate" for {yeq} and "cooperate, be
cooperative" for {jIj}, using the KGT definition to add to the TKD one
for {jIj} rather than supplanting it. I don't know whether that's the
closest to the truth.
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>
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