<div dir="auto">lieven:<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">> Regarding the verb "compare", I (Lieven) asked whether this </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">> would work:</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">> {A-mey patlhmoH C}</span><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Is there something missing from your post ? Before this point, where does 'oqranD make reference of a verb {patlh} ?</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">~ nI'ghma</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 6, 2018 12:14 PM, "Lieven L. Litaer" <<a href="mailto:levinius@gmx.de">levinius@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">For the Klingon subtitles in episode 114, Marc Okrand could get Maltz to talk again, and revealed the following words. All of the following are direct quotes of Okrand:<br>
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{QIl} v. "be desperate", as when there's no way out, they have nothing to lose. This includes ideas like "last-ditch, do-or-die, hopeless, doomed."<br>
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{maleSya'} n. Malaysia<br>
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Think of {rang} as "be responsible for." As I mentioned, it takes an object ({ngoy'} does not). {rang} cannot be used as an adjective.<br>
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Using {qaw} "remember" seems to work in your example of {Dochmey qawbogh} "things he remembers/remembered."<br>
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But I agree — it's a little awkward. And what one remembers should probably be described as something better or descriptive than simply "things."<br>
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We've got {qawHaq} "memory banks." Maltz didn't know what {Haq} in this word was. (He said it has nothing to do with surgery — that's just a coincidence.) But {qaw}, he said, is a perfectly fine noun meaning "memory" in the sense of the ability to remember or the power of recall. It does not refer to specific memories or recollections. That's a different word: {wov'on}.<br>
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It's more common to hear {wov'on qaw} "he/she remembers a memory" than {wov'on ghaj} "he/she has a memory," though the colloquial (English) translation of the former would be "he/she has a memory." Someone who remembers a lot of stuff or who can easily remember things (like dates or lines of a play) may be said to have a {qaw pov} "excellent memory."<br>
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Regarding the verb "compare", I (Lieven) asked whether this would work:<br>
{A-mey patlhmoH C} "C sorts his A" (for instance, his socks)<br>
Okrand said:<br>
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In general, yes. I suppose you could say this if A means "socks," but that would imply that the person doing the sorting likes or values some socks more than some others.<br>
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(so it wouldn't be used to clean your room. It's still about ranking.)<br>
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Lieven L. Litaer<br>
aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany"<br>
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