<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490059316221_3100"> <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490059316221_3054" dir="ltr">An hour or so ago, qurgh started the {chabal tetlh} thread for the upcoming qep'a' on Facebook. As FB is not very suitable for long and/or elaborate messages, I decided to summarise my idea here.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490059316221_3192" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490059316221_3321" dir="ltr">1. {mu' chu'}</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490059316221_3285" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490059316221_3191" dir="ltr">The raw idea is: take the list of 5000 most frequently used English words and see which of them are *really* missing in our knowledge of Klingon.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490059316221_3256" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490059316221_3255" dir="ltr">1.1. Certainly, the first 200 or so are expressed by affixes and other grammar structures, and if any of them are *really* missing, this would belong to {pab chu'}.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490059316221_3395" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490059316221_3286" dir="ltr">1.2. By "*really* missing" I mean that there is no adequate translation (e.g., {'IHchoHmoH} for "suit (verb)", which appears in a sentence in TKD, is adequate, but something back-translated as "propel oneself in water" before {Qal} was revealed is NOT adequate---IMHO).</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490059316221_3396" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490059316221_3533" dir="ltr">1.3. Another important aspect is whether we can reasonably expect that a Klingon word exists. Thus, I would exclude "Terran" words where the {banan naH} approach can be used. For example, if I need to say "oak", I would use {"oak" Sor} (there does not have to be a {Qo'noS} plant similar to the oak anyway).</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490059316221_3399" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490059316221_3398" dir="ltr">2. {pab chu'}</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490059316221_3689" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490059316221_3648" dir="ltr">For grammar, I would suggest to take a good English grammar for advanced learners (of English as foreign language), and identify which grammatical structures are missing in our knowledge of Klingon.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490059316221_3690" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490059316221_3691" dir="ltr">It is clear that some (or even many) structures do not have exact correspondences ("The ship in which I fled" is a famous example).</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490059316221_3201" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490059316221_3727" dir="ltr">Qapla'</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490059316221_3728" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490059316221_3202" dir="ltr">Netzakh</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490059316221_3203" dir="ltr"><br></div></div></body></html>