[tlhIngan Hol] New words from "Kauderwelsch"

[Lieven L. Litaer]

Dear Klingonists,

It's been four weeks since the book was published, and apparently nobody
has noticed, so here we go.

Especially those living in Germany may have noticed that I have written
a book about the Klingon language, published by a famous travel guide
publisher in Germany. Their phrase books all look the same and build up
from the same structure, so I had no influence on the layout. A special
thing about the layout is having all the words separated by hyphens,
which is decided to make it easier for students to recognize the words,
as in {Da-yaj-'a'}.

Fortunately, I had a chance to talk to Maltz (through Marc Okrand) who
could give a few words that are published in that book.

For your record, the book's short title is "Kauderwelsch Klingonisch",
the complete title is "Kauderwelsch-Band 250: Klingonisch - Wort für Wort".

Okrand suggested and confirmed this spelling:

Spock - SIpoq (p. 100)
Voyager - vo'yajer (p. 101)
Discovery - DISqa'vI'rIy (p. 101)

He also revealed an expression for going to the bathroom. (p. 109)
These are his words:
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{taQbang ghIm} is the basic structure. You can, of course, substitute
{turmIq} or {qeQ} in for {taQbang} if that's what you really want to
say. So you can say things like {DaH jImej. turmIq vIghImnIS.}

Maltz said Klingons don't have euphemisms for this sort of thing. On the
other hand, there is a slang expression or idiom that's used from time
to time, though mostly (but hardly always) by or to kids: {qIvon belmoH}
(as in {DaH jImej. qIvonwIj vIbelnISmoH.} and the like). You might ask a
child who's a little jittery {belHa''a' qIvonlIj?}.

Most people say {qIvon}, though some say {qIvonDu'}.  Maltz says he has
no idea why this expression has this slang meaning, given what he knows
about his own {qIvonDu'}.

As with idioms in general, you can't substitute one word for another
(unless you're playing word games). So saying something like {qIvonwIj
vIQuchnISmoH} could only refer to making your {qIvon} happy, assuming
it's possible to do such a thing.
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For details on the book, see
http://klingonisch.net/kauderwelsch/


--
Lieven L. Litaer
aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany"
http://www.klingonisch.de
http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/Kauderwelsch