[91892] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] More new words from Maltz
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Felix Malmenbeck)
Thu Jan 26 21:39:30 2012
From: Felix Malmenbeck <felixm@kth.se>
To: Qov <robyn@flyingstart.ca>, "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:38:13 +0000
In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20120126175357.0455ae68@flyingstart.ca>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
> And matlh still finds genitalia too taboo to mention, but gives us
> the vocabulary to classify all holes into those that can and cannot
> be filled? And to think that there were days on which I thought I
> had exhausted the possibility of Klingon porn.
Now that you mention it, a good translation for QemjIq would probably be "invagination" (or "cavity", but that doesn't sound nearly as naughty), as it can be created through a continuous deformation, whereas a qung requires a puncture. In topological terms, adding a QemjIq is a homeomorphic process, whereas adding a qung is not.
Fun fact: When you work behind the bar at a physics yej'an, conversations such as this are quite common. I actually first learnt the word "invagination" (which exists in Swedish, too) when we were discussing whether or not a friend of ours (or, rather, his boundary) was topologically homeomorphic with a torus (it wasn't). During the course of this discussion I happened to imply somehow that ears were among the problems, and was promptly scolded for not realizing that ears are invaginations and therefore have simply connected boundaries.
I bowed my head in shame.
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