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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/25/2021 10:32 AM, Will Martin
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:22412F4F-C0ED-4926-82A6-68F8EA911BCF@mac.com">Of course,
we feel different about our word “weather” than we feel about the
term “atmosphere status”, but since Klingon doesn’t have a word
for “weather”, maybe they feel exactly the same about the phrase
{muD Dotlh} as we feel about our word “weather”.</blockquote>
<p>If they do, then it's an idiom we can't recreate through pure
analysis. We use the noun <i>weather</i> in a couple of different
senses: the collection of wind, water, visibility, and temperature
in the atmosphere ("The bad weather wrecked the boat"); the
current state of the atmosphere due to all those factors ("The
weather isn't looking good for flying today"); and the reporting
on this state ("And now on to the weather"). Taken literally, the
Klingon <b>muD Dotlh</b> is only the second of these: the state
of the atmosphere due to the effects of wind, water, etc.</p>
<p>Now, one could say that Zeus is the god of the state of the
atmosphere, and that wouldn't be inaccurate, but when one says
Zeus is a god of the weather, I think one is really referring to
the first of the senses I mentioned: he commands the wind, water,
visibility, temperature, and so on in the sky. Those things aren't
the <b>muD Dotlh,</b> though together they can change the <b>muD
Dotlh.</b></p>
<p>In other words, if my boat is being tossed about on the waves,
it's not because the <i>status</i> of the atmosphere is tossing
it about; it's because the physical phenomena of wind and water in
the sky are tossing it about. In English, we use the word <i>weather</i>
for both of these things; in Klingon, it appears to me that <b>muD
Dotlh</b> is specifically the former, the status of the
atmosphere, and we don't seem to have a single term to refer
specifically to the collection of physical phenomena.</p>
<p>But because English uses the word <i>weather</i> for both, it's
easy for English speakers to confuse <b>muD Dotlh</b> with the
physical phenomena.<br>
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