[tlhIngan Hol] magic and magicians

[DloraH]

On Fri, 2016-11-25 at 09:55 -0700, Christa Hansberry wrote:
> {lIl}, is it now? This just keeps getting more eye-bonking... I suppose it
> has to be ell eye ell, 

Correct, ell eye ell; CVC (Consonant Vowel Consonant).
What we have seen so far, with very few exceptions (suffix -oy), Klingon
syllables are CVC or CV.  Because of this, there is only one way to read
lIlIllI'.


- DloraH




> -QISta' (who still can't pronounce her own name, but at least it's easily
> legible :-P)
> 
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 9:00 AM, kechpaja <kechpaja at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 10:16:05AM +0100, Lieven wrote:
> > > lIl is a verb meaning something like “simulate, impersonate.” The idea
> > > is one of doing something such that the subject of the verb looks or
> > > behaves like something (or someone) else or represents something (or
> > > someone) else. The word has no connotation of fraud or anything
> > > underhanded (in this respect, it’s like ghet).  The object is the thing
> > > being simulated or the person being impersonated.  lIlwI’ (“simulator,”
> > > for lack of a better term) is different from lIw (“substitute”) since
> > > lIw implies replacement (the notion of  “instead of”) while a lIlwI’
> > > doesn’t replace anyone or anything.
> >
> > Can I infer from this that you would also use {lIl} to refer to dressing
> > as someone or something for e.g. Halloween, i.e. {targh vIlIl} "I'm
> > going as a targ"? Or would you need to say something like {targh jIH 'e'
> > vIghet}? What about an actor in a play?
> >
> > Also, where is the boundary between {lIl} and {Da}?
> >
> > -SapIr
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