<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr">>Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 22:04:05 -0500<br></div><div id="ydp6354f7aayahoo_quoted_5773142625" class="ydp6354f7aayahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;"><div><div dir="ltr">>From: Alan Anderson <<a href="mailto:qunchuy@alcaco.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">qunchuy@alcaco.net</a>><br></div>>Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Bullets in Klingon</div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">>Maybe not. French calls it "bombe". Spanish is "bomba". Hebrew looks like<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">>it calls it either a bomb or a cannon. We don't know what Klingons would<br></div><div dir="ltr">>call the act of jumping into a pool in order to make a big splash.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Interesting!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div>Checking out https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cannonball#Translations, in Finnish and Macedonian it's called a bomb, in Dutch it's called a little bomb, in Portuguese it can either be a bomb or a cannonball, and in German it's a Sa'Hut-bomb.<br><br><br></div><div dir="ltr">>Worf seems averse to swimming in the first place, so Klingons might not</div><div dir="ltr">>even have pool-related jargon.<br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Didn't know that!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr">>>> Am I missing something?<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>You're missing the noun {nIch} "ammunition".<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Ah! Didn't think to go searching for that. Thanks!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr">>However, you're also missing the noun {bobDar} "splash". I think<br></div><div dir="ltr">>{bobDar'a'} would be a perfectly appropriate word to describe a "cannonball<br></div><div dir="ltr">>jump" -- or at least the relevant result of one.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">You're right that we could probably just use *bobDar*. I do know this word, since I remember the discussion of "Splish Splash" that went on when it was revealed. Or we could use some imagery like *jorwI' bobDar*.<br></div>
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