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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Bird-of-Prey Haynes Manual
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robyn Stewart)
Thu Dec 6 14:26:22 2012
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:20:30 -0800
To: "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com>,tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
From: Robyn Stewart <robyn@flyingstart.ca>
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At 08:44 '?????' 12/6/2012, De'vID wrote:
>We could've gotten proper words for "manifold (engineering device)" and
>"mine (explosive weapon)", as well as various materials used in ship
>construction. As it is, I'm left wondering if *{DuD} was a mistake
>(since *{tlhHl} obviously is) and {yoD} is misused (because its use
>contradicts its meaning as explained in previous canon). We have one
>possibly genuine {mu' chu'}, but it is in doubt because the rest of
>the "Klingon" words in the body text are non-Okrandian, so I don't
>know if that one was supplied by Okrand or just happened to
>coincidentally match Okrandian Klingon phonology.
If I had to describe a manifold in Klingon I would likely call it a
chevwI', DuDwI' or boSwI', depending in its function. A fuel
injection manifold isn't really a DuDwI', but an exhaust manifold
could easily be considered one, so if this is an error, it's on the
same lines as QaD -- a verb used where a noun should be. Not all
languages have such unique specialized vocabulary for engine parts.
For example what is a crankshaft in English is merely a tree in
Italian. And maybe Klingons think it's stupid that we just call the
heavy body of an internal combustion engine the "block."
- Qov
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