daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh)
Sat Jan 21 03:02:55 2012
From: Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh <qeslagh@hotmail.com>
To: <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:02:39 +1000
In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20120120181323.04729448@flyingstart.ca>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
jIjatlhpu':
> ({velwI'} is really doing my head in. Everything else Marc says in his email
> indicates that the subject of {vel} is a thing; a covering or carpet or rug.
mujang Qov, jatlh:
> I think it's idiomatic. Perhaps a contraction of velmoHwI'. Like how
> a plumber installs plumbing. Klingons probably think that it's crazy
> that a carpenter doesn't install carpets. We have lots of old weird
> names for people who make things. Fletcher? Cooper? Smith? I suppose
> the name for the person who performs the trade befomes fixed and then
> the word for the things they make changes.
Makes sense. If that's the case, then in order to say that you cover X with Y,
you'd have to say {X velmeH Y vIlo'} or {Y-vaD X vIvelmoH}; {Y-vaD X vIvel}
is probably ungrammatical. (At least, all the other evidence points to that.)
So in answer to your original question, if vajar is using a blindfold I'd be
happy with {leghlaHbe'meH qama', mInDu'Daj velmeH DIr lo'}. Otherwise, someone
made the suggestion of {buq}, which could work okay: {leghlaHbe'meH qama',
nachDajDaq buq lan}.
QeS 'utlh
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