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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: Doq 'ej wovbe'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gaerfindel)
Tue Oct 16 08:28:07 2012
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:27:29 -0400
From: Gaerfindel <gaerfindel@hotmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
In-Reply-To: <507C1ABD.6090404@trimboli.name>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
ghItlhpu' David Trimboli:
> The original post says
>
> Klingon word: Doq 'ej wovbe'
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: be brown
>
> What you've got here says that {Doq 'ej wovbe'} is a word, which it's
> not, and that its a verb, which it also is not. The English
> translation is a verbal phrase, but who would look up a Klingon word
> according to its English part of speech (especially a "be something"
> verb)?
>
> If this entry appeared in an English-to-Klingon dictionary, it would
> appear thus:
>
> brown, be brown
> Doq 'ej wovbe' (phrase)
>
> If it appeared in a Klingon-to-English dictionary, it would appear thus:
>
> Doq 'ej wovbe' (phrase)
> be brown
>
jIghItlh quljIb:
I applaud this. However I still maintain that <<Doq 'ej Hurgh>> is a
better rendering of "be brown." I might use <<Doq 'ej wovbe'>>, but to
describe things that are "light brown." (Umber vs. sienna.)
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