<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpea2b8ddeyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div dir="ltr">>I see no point in guessing the results of new words</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The purpose I had in mind for this game is threefold:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">1. To have fun!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">2. To see how clever we can be in coming up with Okrandesque puns, even if they aren't the puns that Marc Okrand ends up using.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">3. We could also play competitively -- multiple players coming up with lists of predictions, and seeing who got the most right/the highest score.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The guesses/non-canon words could be scored according to how close they were once the real qep'a' word list is revealed. The exact right wordform would be worth 3 points. If someone got the basic word right but the wrong wordFORM -- in matters of where the glottal stops go, whether the <span>pun</span>-source word is truncated, forward vs. backward, etc., it would be worth 2 points. And if someone guessed the source of a <span><span>pun right but chose a different word than what Marc turned out to choose , it would be worth 1 point. (For example, in the last qep'a', the word for "feldspar" was *moqlam* -- a reference to Craig Feldspar from Malcolm in the Middle. If someone had guessed *Qegh* for "feldspar", s/he would score 1 point on that word.)</span></span><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">To prevent third-party list members from accidentally misremembering the wrong guesses (which will probably be most of the guesses) as the canon words, the "players" could privately send their lists to me instead of posting them publicly, and I would do the counting/scoring in such a method of gameplay.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">>and strongly<br></div><div dir="ltr">>discourage sending such a list full of non-canon words.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">We don't jave to send our lists of non-canon speculation in to Marc Okrand. Although if he saw such a list AFTER the new words were revealed, I think he may be mildly amused.<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I have posted here before about dreams I have had wherein new words were revealed (or, as in the case of my insect words dream, created but then withheld from us). One dream was about Marc Okrand revealing new words for diseases like AIDS and syphilis (and the word for AIDS referenced the musical RENT). I have also had a dream wherein I created a whole bunch of Klingon words for mammals we didn't have yet and put them up on a webpage. (There were three words for kinds of chipmunk-like creatures from Kronos in this dream,<span> one a braggart,</span> one brainy, and one that loves food, and the words for these species of chipmunkoids were based on Alvin, Simon, and Theodore.) Should people not post about such dreams they had if imaginary non-canon words appeared in the dream?<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">>It has happened<br></div><div dir="ltr">>before that someone didn't read the entire message and accidentally<br></div><div dir="ltr">>assumed it was a new word.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Are you talking about *'I'* (the word for "armpit")?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Well, from the looks of things, this isn't going to become an annual activity on tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org.<br></div></div></div><div class="ydpea2b8ddeyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div class="ydpea2b8ddeyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div class="ydpea2b8ddeyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Message: 3<br></div><div id="ydp23f398b6yahoo_quoted_1562893027" class="ydp23f398b6yahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;"><div><div dir="ltr">Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 07:00:25 +0200<br></div><div dir="ltr">From: "Lieven L. Litaer" <<a href="mailto:levinius@gmx.de" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">levinius@gmx.de</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">To: <a href="mailto:tlhingan-hol@kli.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tlhingan-hol@kli.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Quj: mu'mey chu' tI'aq!<br></div><div dir="ltr">Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:d3c646da-63ec-432c-baf1-529548a2adbc@gmx.de" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">d3c646da-63ec-432c-baf1-529548a2adbc@gmx.de</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Am 17.07.2024 um 01:50 schrieb James Landau via tlhIngan-Hol:<br></div><div dir="ltr">> With the qep'a' wejmaH wa'DIch in only 9 days, I thought it would be fun<br></div><div dir="ltr">> to try to predict the new words that Marc Okrand will give up from the<br></div><div dir="ltr">> chabal tetlh. These are my guesses; some of them I wasn't inspired<br></div><div dir="ltr">> enough to even try on.<br></div></div>
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