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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: qatlh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Fri Aug 29 10:24:16 2014
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 14:24:00 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, August 29, 2014
>
> Klingon word: qatlh
> Part of speech: ques
> Definition: why?
qatlh Haw'pu' yaS
Why did the officer flee? TKD
qatlh pa' ghoS
What's she doing? ["Why is she [the ship] going there?"] ST6
qatlh QeH
Why is he angry? CK
qatlh Dat DI tu'lu', tlhIngan?
Why is there rubble everywhere, Klingon? CK
qatlh bIjatlh
[Why do you say (that)? (untranslated)] PK
potlhbe'chugh yay qatlh pe''eghlu'
If winning is not important, then why keep score? TKW
qatlh jej taj
Why is the knife sharp? KGT
qatlh betleHDaj tlhapbe'
Why doesn't he take his bat'leth? KGT
qatlh tuneH
What do you want with me? (ENT "Affliction")
toH, Hey Humanpu'. qatlh DISaH?
Why should I care about a human killing humans? (STID)
TKD 69: Three other question words likewise occur at the beginning of the sentence.
[FYI the other two are {chay'} "how?" and {ghorgh} "when?".]
KGT 32: A minority of children pronounce {tlh} as {ch}, particularly at the end of syllables. For example, {qatlh} (why) is pronounced {qach}, and {botlh} (middle) is {boch}. Though the resulting forms may be real, though different, words ({qach}, for example, is "structure, building", and {boch} means "be shiny"), there is seldom any confusion because the identically pronounced words are used in such different contexts.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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