[tlhIngan Hol] Goat animal

[Robyn Stewart]

At qep’a’, ghunchu’wi’ and I were reading aloud to each other from Green
Eggs, just translating on the fly.  When we got to the page with the goat,
we just left it at “goat”.  It’s an Earth creature.  It has a shape, an
odour, a set of behaviours, a history in literature and a whole raft of
connotations. Why would you want to substitute another animal that can’t
possibly be the same?

 

You don’t find it necessary to change out the targs in Klingon stories for
some kind of Earth animal, do you?  Why do the same if you want a goat.  If
what you really really want is an animal that is like a goat in every way
except that it is native to Qo’noS then tera’ goat rurchu’bogh Qo’noS
Ha’DIbaH’e’ ‘oH. Maybe when a Klingon says “goat,” it’s going to come out a
bit like qot or ghot. The latter will go nicely with the fact that the
English word for goatHom is the same as the English word for puq.

 

Stop rebuilding the Klingon world to make it more like yours. It’s like
eating at McDonald’s while on vacation in France. 



pItlh.

 

From: tlhIngan-Hol [mailto:tlhingan-hol-bounces at lists.kli.org] On Behalf Of
Felix Malmenbeck
Sent: July 25, 2016 11:05
To: tlhingan-hol at kli.org
Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Goat animal

 

> The word wasn't invented by Marc Okrand himself, but

> by the author of the novel. I think, however, Okrand

> vetted the new Klingon words in it.

 

According to the author (Keith R.A. DeCandido), Marc Okrand only vetted the
glossary for "Diplomatic Implausibility". The glossary for "Honor Bound" was
presumably vetted by 'angghal or somebody else from the KLI.

 

Source: https://twitter.com/KRADeC/status/91641513691459584

 

Also, according to DeCandido, the bolmaq is more similar to a hyena than a
sheep. I believe I asked this question in connection with the Minecraft
translation.

 

Source: https://twitter.com/KRADeC/status/219789081108946944

 

There is a creature known to Klingons that is called a "Degebian mountain
goat", which is an eight-legged creature native to Degeb IV which incredibly
good at climbing. I don't suppose that helps much with translations,
however.

 

The minn'hor is a beast of burden (similar to cattle), the milk of which is
used to make cheese.

 

I wrote a summary of Klingon-related animals I knew of a few years back
(which unfortunately I've lost the original file for, so I can't update it
without quite some bit of work; I will however make an effort to enter all
relevant entries into the Extended Corpus, which I'm sorry to say I've been
insufficiently diligent in updating).

 

Here is the document: 

http://people.kth.se/~felixm/Klingon+animals.pdf

 

I see that I accidentally described the Degebian mountain goat as
quadrupetal [sic], which is wrong both in fact and in spelling.

 

 

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From: tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol-bounces at lists.kli.org> on behalf of André
Müller <esperantist at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2016 19:00
To: tlhingan-hol at kli.org
Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Goat animal 

 

In the "extended" canon (in this case the novel "Honor Bound") there is the
so-called {bolmaq}, a native animal of Boreth, which makes a bleating sound
and tends to run around in circles.

The word wasn't invented by Marc Okrand himself, but by the author of the
novel. I think, however, Okrand vetted the new Klingon words in it.

I used {bolmaq} to describe a sheep once.

 

On Jul 25, 2016 18:54, "mayqel qunenoS" <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:

Is there a klingon animal, which resembles the terran goat ?

mop qIj
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