[tlhIngan Hol] qep'a' cha'maH loSDIch New words and some tidbits

[nIqolay Q]

majQa'! My request for weather words made it to Maltz! Thank you, Maltz.

Is {ghugh} a noun or a verb? The entry says (n) but the English gloss
"vocalize" is a verb. I have a similar question about the weather words
like {vung}, {cheq}, and {raw}, which are listed as verbs but glossed as
nouns. Most of the existing weather words are verbs, so that's not too
surprising, but I do want to double check.

The odd note about {nev'aQ} makes me wonder if there's going to be a scene
with a Klingon sarcophagus in space in Star Trek: Discovery (that is,
assuming MO did get asked to do some Klingon for it after all, as someone
suggested earlier).

Puns:

{yamtaw} "line" backwards is a rough transliteration of "what's my", as in
the old show What's My Line?

{jItuj'ep} "mummy". I groaned when I figured this one out, which is the
sign of a quality pun. "I'm hot" ({jItuj}) + "ep" = Imhotep.

{retlaw} "dent, indentation" backwards is "Walter", which suggests someone
named "Walter Dent", but there's no obviously significant Walter Dent that
I can find on Google... the mystery continues.

{DabqI'} "mud, clay, putty" backwards is a rough transliteration of
"Ichabod". Ichabod Mudd was the eponymous hero's sidekick on the old serial
Captain Midnight. (This word's been around a while but I just found out the
pun recently.)

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 8:57 PM, qurgh lungqIj <qurgh at wizage.net> wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> I've posted the new Klingon words online at https://www.kli.org/
> activities/qepmey/qepa-chamah-losdich/qepa-chamah-losdich-new-words/
>
> We'll be working to get these added to the KLI's New Word List on the
> website, but I wanted to get the pages out to you all as soon as possible.
>
> I also got to ask Marc a few questions and documented his answers:
>
> I asked about {jIb}, {pob}, {loch} and {rol} after there was a
> conversation about it in the Learn Klingon Facebook group. {jIb} is only
> hair on the top of your head, {loch} is the hair on your upper lip, {rol}
> is the hair on your face that covers you chin/neck area, and {pob} is hair
> from the neck down. "Arm hair" is {DeS pob}. The words cover both the hair
> and the entire construction, so {rol} refers to a "beard" as well as the
> hair that makes up the beard.
>
> However, "ear hair" or "nose hair" is talked about using {pob}, and {pob}
> *can* be used to talk about "face hair" or "head hair" but it would be
> considered very strange to do so.
>
> I asked about fronting nouns marked with {-'e'} as described in the TKD
> Addendum. Marc said that {-'e'} fronted nouns are marked and it should only
> be used in extreme situations. He said one could, if they wanted to, use
> this all the time but it would be similar to an English speaking using
> Shakespearean English all the time.
>
> SuStel asked on Facebook if {yaH} refers to any work place, or just
> military, and Marc said that it refers to any place where one does work.
>
> I also asked Marc again about using {-Ha'} on adverbs. He said that if it
> makes sense, then {-Ha'} could be used. I offered the example of {tlhIngan
> Hol neHHa' vIjatlh} and he translated that as "I speak not only Klingon" as
> in "I speak many languages including Klingon". He say that {vajHa'} still
> doesn't make sense.
>
> yItIv!
>
> qurgh
>
>
>
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