daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robyn Stewart)
Fri Jan 20 19:20:20 2012
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:19:52 -0800
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
From: Robyn Stewart <robyn@flyingstart.ca>
In-Reply-To: <C305E6BD33E2654DAE1F8F403247B6A6032078476B19@EVS02.ad.uchi
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Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
At 13:14 20/01/2012, Steven Boozer wrote:
>Another option:
>
>leghlaHbe'meH, qama' nachDaq buq lan vajar.
>So that he could not see, Vajar put a bag on (over?) the prisoner's head.
A bag is just what I was thinking of. I had forgotten that buq had
that meaning.
>or with the new verb:
>
>nach velmeH buq lo' vajar.
>Vajar used a bag to cover the prisoner's head.
I get more of a coating or closely fitted covering sense from vel.
I'm not happy using it to "cover up" loosely. I don't think your're
wrong. I'm just not happy with it.
>Voragh
>Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh [mailto:qeslagh@hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 10:31 AM
> >
> > ghItlhpu' Qov, jatlh:
> > > leghlaHbe'meH qama', qab So'bogh qama' mIv lan[110].
> > > [110] Anyone have a better way to describe hooding or blindfolding a
> > > prisoner?
> >
> > jang Voragh, jatlh:
> > > {qama' mInDu' qat} "he wrapped/encased the prisoner's eyes"?
> >
> > I like that. It works well.
> >
> > > (Interesting that we have no verb for "cover [up]".)
> >
> > Actually, with the architectural vocab Quvar gave us from Marc on the
> > 9th
> > of this month we received just such a verb: {vel}. We only have it in
> > the
> > context of carpet-laying (a carpet or rug is said to {vel} the floor,
> > so
> > I guess a person {velmoH}s the rug), but from the expanded gloss of
> > "cover,
> > coat, mask" it seems to have fairly broad meaning. So how about:
> >
> > leghlaHbe'meH qama', mInDu'Daj velmoH vajar
> > In order that the prisoner was unable to see, Vajar covered his eyes
> >
> > QeS 'utlh
> >
>
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