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<div>jIghItlhpu', jIjatlh:</div>
<div>> peDpu'mo' DujwIj So'lu'</div>
<div>> "because it snowed, my car is covered"</div>
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<div>mujang SuStel, jatlh:</div>
<div>> DujlIj So' nuq?</div>
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<div>jIjang je jIH, jIjatlh:</div>
<div>> If you want to play it that way, peD je nuq'e'? And who knows?</div>
<div>> bIQ qutHommey? chuch ghIH? DujtlhuQmey taD? I'm not saying</div>
<div>> there's no word for the noun "snow". What I'm saying is, if one</div>
<div>> wanted to describe the situations that were being described, we</div>
<div>> do have pretty reasonable vocabulary with which to do so. Maybe</div>
<div>> I'm thinking of the qep'a' wishlisting slightly differently.</div>
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<div>jang je SuStel, jatlh:</div>
<div>> I<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> think you are. Someone asked for the noun for snow, and you're basically</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">> saying not to ask for one because you can find other ways to say it. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I'd like</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">> a noun for snow so I don't have to play at circumlocution whenever I want</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">> to use it. I also find it highly unlikely that Klingons don't have a word for</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">> this common stuff,</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I take your point. I honestly was approaching this from the perspective of "this is what we can already say, now let's try to work out where the serious gaps are".</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">taH:</span><br>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">> and that they play word games whenever they talk about it.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', NotoColorEmoji, 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Android Emoji', EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;">On the other hand, "w</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', NotoColorEmoji, 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Android Emoji', EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;">ord
games" isn't quite a </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', NotoColorEmoji, 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Android Emoji', EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;">fair assessment</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', NotoColorEmoji, 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Android Emoji', EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;">. </span>I
speak a language where the only attested nouns for "love" are compounds meaning "heart-warmth" and "good-seeing". I believe, and will continue to, that we should be very careful about approaching the Klingon lexicon with expectations coloured by the richness
and the semantic divisions of <span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', NotoColorEmoji, 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Android Emoji', EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;">Standard Average European lexicons</span>.
If there's a monomorphemic Klingon word for snow, that'd be great, and I'd look forward to using it. But if Klingons (say) perceive snow as merely another form of ice, and only disambiguate when necessary by calling it something like {chuch ghIH}, then that
should be fine too.</div>
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<div>taH:</div>
<div>> It's a wish-list, not an I-can't-find-any-other-way-to-say-it list.</div>
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<div>lu'. DopDaq qul yIchenmoH QobDI' ghu'.</div>
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<div>QeS 'utlh</div>
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