[tlhIngan Hol] How to clean a white shirt

[seruq]

I have a picture of a color chart.  The left side is for females, listing something like 30 - 50 colors; the various shades of blue, the various greens, and such.  The right side is for men; has only 7 or 8 colors.
Royal blue, aqua, teal, cyan (and others) = blue.
I'll say "It is blue", but the wife will try to correct me and give some fancy girlie term specifying a particular shade of blue.

Klingon just takes it a little further.  Doq, SuD.
And, if needed, as seen in the chart that someone else already linked to, you can say Doqqu' and SuDqu', and also add wov and wovbe'.

- DloraH



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On Sun, 7/24/16, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] How to clean a white shirt
 To: "tlhIngan Hol mailing list" <tlhingan-hol at kli.org>
 Date: Sunday, July 24, 2016, 2:49 AM
 
 Michael Roney, Jr.
 > {SuD} comes from TKD and has
 "yellow" in the definition.
 
 tkd, p. 135 :
 {SuD} green, be
 green, blue, yellow
 
 As you
 see, it also has blue and green ; so unless the reader is
 psychic, thus being able to know which of the
 three words I actually
 want to express, then
 this word (on its own) is useless.
 
 Perhaps that's the reason why there is a
 klingon psychic probe in the
 first
 place..
 
 poghmey qIj
 qunnoq
 
 On Sat, Jul 23, 2016
 at 7:58 PM, Michael Roney, Jr. <nahqun at gmail.com>
 wrote:
 > On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 7:47 AM,
 mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun at gmail.com>
 wrote:
 >>
 >>
 > Jeremy Silver :
 >> > You
 appear to need an ahem primer on colours.
 >> > pa' yoqqoq DanejtaHbogh
 Datu' 'e' vIHar:
 >> >
 http://klingonska.org/ref/color.html
 >>
 >> I knew of the
 word {SuD}, and of this link as well ; but because I
 >> remembered that some of the color
 shades described there were not
 >>
 canon, I chose to write "yellow" in federation
 standard english. Only
 >> now that I
 checked again, I saw that the "yellowish tinge"
 shade is
 >> canon indeed.
 >>
 >> But all this
 is confusing and outrageous as well. Am I supposed to
 >> remember, in every canon source which
 came out after tkd and kgt,
 >> every
 little detail ? And among all shades of a particular color,
 am I
 >> supposed to remember which is
 canon and which is not ?
 >>
 >> Or am I supposed to remember that
 somewhere in kgt, there is a line
 >>
 which describes the "yellowish tinge", which of
 course isn't mentioned
 >> in the
 dictionary at the end of the book ?
 >>
 >> So, one uses
 federation standard and the job is done..
 >>
 >> thank you
 though, for taking the time to reply.
 >>
 >
 > {SuD} comes from TKD and has
 "yellow" in the definition.
 >
 Klingon only has 4 color words to remember (if you count
 black and white as
 > colors).
 >
 >
 >
 > ~naHQun
 >
 >
 >
 --
 > ~Michael Roney, Jr.
 > Freelance Translator
 >
 >
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