[tlhIngan Hol] Bullets in Klingon

[James Landau]

>Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 22:04:05 -0500
>From: Alan Anderson <qunchuy at alcaco.net>
>Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Bullets in Klingon

>Maybe not. French calls it "bombe". Spanish is "bomba". Hebrew looks like
>it calls it either a bomb or a cannon. We don't know what Klingons would
>call the act of jumping into a pool in order to make a big splash.

Interesting!

Checking out https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cannonball#Translations, in Finnish and Macedonian it's called a bomb, in Dutch it's called a little bomb, in Portuguese it can either be a bomb or a cannonball, and in German it's a Sa'Hut-bomb.


>Worf seems averse to swimming in the first place, so Klingons might not>even have pool-related jargon.


Didn't know that!

>>> Am I missing something?
>
>
>You're missing the noun {nIch} "ammunition".


Ah! Didn't think to go searching for that. Thanks!

>However, you're also missing the noun {bobDar} "splash". I think
>{bobDar'a'} would be a perfectly appropriate word to describe a "cannonball
>jump" -- or at least the relevant result of one.


You're right that we could probably just use *bobDar*. I do know this word, since I remember the discussion of "Splish Splash" that went on when it was revealed. Or we could use some imagery like *jorwI' bobDar*.
  
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