[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: rutlh

nIqolay Q niqolay0 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 1 14:28:10 PDT 2023


>From an email from Lieven to the mailing list, Nov 23 2022:

About the expression {jva}:
>
> For this qepHom, we had produced playing dice with Klingon words instead
> of numbers. And despite intense proofreading I somehow missed one typo,
> written in pIqaD: it says {jva} instead of {jav}
>
> DopDaq qul yIchenmoH QobDI' ghu'!
>
> Now while preparing the qepHom and talking with Marc Okrand, I told him
> about this error, and I joked that perhaps Maltz has a good explanation
> for such a weird way of writing.
>
> Surprisingly, he did, and provided this nice story printed in the booklet.
>
> Ironically, nobody noticed the typo during the qepHom, or at least, they
> did not tell me.
>

The details of MO's response from Maltz are at http://klingon.wiki/Word/Jva


On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 4:44 PM Will Martin via tlhIngan-Hol <
tlhingan-hol at lists.kli.org> wrote:

> Okay, reading further, it explains that it is “written” like this but
> always pronounced {jav}, which is pretty weird for a phonetic writing
> system...
>
> pItlh
>
> charghwI’ ‘utlh
> (ghaH, ghaH, -Daj)
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 1, 2023, at 4:39 PM, Will Martin <lojmitti7wi7nuv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There a listing for {jva} as a shortened version of {jav mIS}. Perhaps
> that’s a typo for {jav}?
>
> pItlh
>
> charghwI’ ‘utlh
> (ghaH, ghaH, -Daj)
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 1, 2023, at 2:22 PM, nIqolay Q via tlhIngan-Hol <
> tlhingan-hol at lists.kli.org> wrote:
>
> http://klingon.wiki/En/NewWordsQepHom2022
>
> On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 10:24 AM Steven Boozer via tlhIngan-Hol <
> tlhingan-hol at lists.kli.org> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know the source for this?  I can’t seem to track it down.
>>
>>
>>
>> Voragh
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>>
>> *From:* James Landau via tlhIngan-Hol
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 1, 2023 3:39 AM
>>
>> Also *rutlh 'echlet*, skateboard.
>>
>>
>>
>> >Message: 2
>>
>> >Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 13:59:55 +0000
>>
>> >From: Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu>
>>
>> >
>>
>> >SEE:
>>
>> >rutlh                            wheel (n)
>>
>> >Ho' rutlh                      cog/sprocket wheel (n)
>>
>> >wa' rutlh qam Do Duj   unicycle (n)
>>
>> >cha' rutlh puH Duj        motorcycle (n)
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