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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/19/23 23:44, James Landau via
tlhIngan-Hol wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Nice to see a word I
requested becoming KWotD! I was the one who asked for a word
for "chromosome" on chabal tetlh, back in 2020 or 2021. (My
other request that year, "Jew", still has yet to make it in.)</div>
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<p>Earth-specific cultural words are tricky and presumably will be
loan-words. But there's non-canon for this already. And thereon
hangs a tale...<br>
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<p>Let's think back to 1993, in Seattle. My wife and I were
visiting for a joint meetup-party of two online games. And things
were kicking off at a restaurant where people were all meeting
up. Something like a dozen of us walk into the restaurant, where
we had a reservation, and were shown to our table, and we told the
staff that we were still expecting two more people, who should be
shown to the table when they arrived. "Can you give us names or
descriptions of the people yet to arrive, so we'll know to bring
them here?" We only said, "You'll know them when you see them."
Because the two yet to arrive were flying in from Boston, in
costume. One was our beloved Captain Krankor, in full Klingon
regalia (this was before 9/11, when you could get away with more
crap on airlines, though as it happens this was in fact the very
week that the WTC was bombed the first time.) The other was our
friend Jason Scott, who was wearing a full-body cow suit. So,
yeah, they knew them when they saw them.</p>
<p>At the table, there was certainly some Klingon spoken. Krankor
and I were both there, as was DrujIv (an active Klingonist and a
good friend until her untimely passing a few years later of breast
cancer). (was trI'qal there? not sure.) Anyway, my wife had
crocheted a kippah (skullcap that observant Jews often wear) for
Krankor, even though he doesn't wear one (he's a committed
atheist, actually, but is of Jewish extraction), with Klingon
trefoils on it and his name in pIqaD and "Qapla'" stitched on the
inside. Krankor loved it and laughed and put it on his said and
proclaimed:</p>
<p>"DaH yIyID!"</p>
<p>A bilingual pun. At which I laughed so hard that I smacked my
head on the corner of the table and cut my forehead open. And
ever since then I have been able to claim truthfully that "I have
held conversations in Klingon, and have a scar to prove it!"</p>
<p>So, year, we've used "*yIDwI'" for "Jew" from time to time.</p>
<p>~mark<br>
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