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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>He’s really using up those monosyllables now!</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-- <br>SuStel<br>http://trimboli.name</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:levinius@gmx.de">Lieven</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, November 25, 2016 4:16 AM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:tlhingan-hol@kli.org">tlhingan-hol@kli.org</a><br><b>Subject: </b>[tlhIngan Hol] magic and magicians</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>At the qepHom 2016, we were happy to learn the word for magic, {'IDnar}.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As a coincidence, one of the attendees is a famous professional </p><p class=MsoNormal>magician, so the immediate and obvious first question was: What do you </p><p class=MsoNormal>call a magician? Few days ago, it was the magician's 40th birthday, and </p><p class=MsoNormal>Marc... ehm, sorry, Maltz made this information his birthday present:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>--- begin quote ---</p><p class=MsoNormal>I talked with Maltz about magic a little bit, and here's what he had to say:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A true wizard or sorcerer – like in Harry Potter – is a ’IDnar pIn’a’.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>To conjure or to cast a spell, which is what wizards do, is reS. So a </p><p class=MsoNormal>wizard or sorcerer can also be called a reSwI’.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A spell, in this sense, is tlheH. One can say either tlheH reS or just </p><p class=MsoNormal>reS alone for "he/she casts a spell." Maltz wasn’t sure if there is </p><p class=MsoNormal>anything besides tlheH that can be the object of reS, since Maltz isn’t </p><p class=MsoNormal>a ’IDnar pIn’a’, but maybe there is.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The most common way to refer to a magician, like Kalibo, is mIn yuqwI’ </p><p class=MsoNormal>(yuq is “outwit, outsmart”).</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(A mIn tojwI’ is an “optical illusion.”)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Another expression for “magician” is ’IDnar lIlwI’.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>lIl is a verb meaning something like “simulate, impersonate.” The idea </p><p class=MsoNormal>is one of doing something such that the subject of the verb looks or </p><p class=MsoNormal>behaves like something (or someone) else or represents something (or </p><p class=MsoNormal>someone) else. The word has no connotation of fraud or anything </p><p class=MsoNormal>underhanded (in this respect, it’s like ghet). The object is the thing </p><p class=MsoNormal>being simulated or the person being impersonated. lIlwI’ (“simulator,” </p><p class=MsoNormal>for lack of a better term) is different from lIw (“substitute”) since </p><p class=MsoNormal>lIw implies replacement (the notion of “instead of”) while a lIlwI’ </p><p class=MsoNormal>doesn’t replace anyone or anything.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So “perform magic” (as Kalibo does) is mIn yuq or ’IDnar lIl. (’IDnar </p><p class=MsoNormal>pIn’a’ lIl would be “he/she impersonates a wizard [non-fraudulently].”</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Another word Maltz thought of as we were talking about all of this is </p><p class=MsoNormal>yut “distract, create a diversion.” The object of this verb, when there </p><p class=MsoNormal>is an object, is the person or group of people (usually) being distracted.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>[...personal messages removed]</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Happy Birthday to Kalibo.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> - Marc</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>PS - My favorite sentence at the moment is “They are (continuously and </p><p class=MsoNormal>with some sort of goal in mind) impersonating you (plural).”</p><p class=MsoNormal>--- end quote ---</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-- </p><p class=MsoNormal>Lieven L. Litaer</p><p class=MsoNormal>aka Quvar valer 'utlh</p><p class=MsoNormal>Grammarian of the KLI</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://www.klingonwiki.net</p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>tlhIngan-Hol mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>