April 2018 - tlhIngan-Hol

Klingon Word of the Day: pargh
by Klingon Word of the Day 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, April 07, 2018 Klingon word: pargh Part of speech: verb Definition: be synthetic, artificial Source: qepHom 2017 This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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paSlogh
by mayqel qunenoS 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

The klingon word for "socks" is {paSlogh}. Is this word to be treated as being grammatically singular, and is it possible to say "one sock" in klingon ? As far as I know, it is unknown if a singular form exists. qunnoq

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info from Maltz: pronunciation
by De'vID 17 Jan '19

17 Jan '19

--- begin quote --- TKD glosses {QIch} as “speech (vocal sounds).” The notation “(vocal sounds)” is intended to denote that “speech” here means the phenomenon of speech as opposed to an address or oration – that’s {SoQ}. So {QIch} doesn’t refer to individual speech sounds or speech sounds collectively. An individual speech sound is {QIch wab} and speech sounds collectively are {QIch wabmey}. “Pronunciation” could be {QIch wab Ho’DoS}, more literally (but awkwardly) “speech-sound manner, speech-sound technique.” --- end quote --- -- De'vID

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info from Maltz: font/typeface
by De'vID 16 Jan '19

16 Jan '19

The "bold" and "italics" refer not to Klingon, but to how definitions are displayed in Latin script (Klingon in bold, English translation in italics, like in TKD). --- begin quote --- “Writing system” in general ({pIqaD} is just one of many in the world/galaxy) is {ghItlhmeH Ho’DoS} “system for writing.” ({Ho’DoS} is “system, method, manner, technique.” {pat} is “system” in the physical [or physical-like] sense, as in “computer system” [hardware or hardware and software together] or “transporter system” or “propulsion system.” {Ho’DoS} is not that.) For “font” or “typeface,” you can use {ngutlh tu’qom} “written character appearance/form/shape.” For “bold,” Maltz suggested {pI’} “fat.” For “Italics,” he said {chongHa’} “un-vertical.” --- end quote --- -- De'vID

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Klingon Word of the Day: ghul
by Klingon Word of the Day 22 Aug '18

22 Aug '18

Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, August 16, 2017 Klingon word: ghul Part of speech: noun Definition: bump, protuberance Source: qep'a' 24 This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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So''eghchoH De'vID
by De'vID 03 May '18

03 May '18

tugh jIve'choH. wa' waQ jIchegh. -- De'vID

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Speculation: ship in which I fled
by SuStel 30 Apr '18

30 Apr '18

A conversation on DuoLingo got me thinking. Okrand said long ago that he could not get the head noun of a relative clause to fit anywhere except as the subject or object of that clause. We accept this as meaning Klingon doesn't allow this, though all Okrand really said was he couldn't see how to do it. Consider the text of /The Klingon Dictionary:/ "The whole construction (relative clause plus head noun), as a unit, is used in the sentence as a noun." I don't know about you, but this is not the mental image of relative clauses I have in my head. I imagine the main clause as a line, the head noun "pinned" to its place on that line, and the relative clause dangling off of the pinned head noun. But the text of TKD may suggest a different picture: the head noun plus verbal clause may be an enclosed package, no dangling, and whatever is part of the relative clause is isolated from interaction with the main clause. The main sentence, in other words, doesn't care what part the relative clause is the head noun; all it cares about is that something called "relative clause" is acting as a noun in a particular spot. For example, if *Duj vIleghpu'bogh* /ship which I saw/ is said to be equal to /X,/ then we can insert it into a main clause *vIngu'laH*/I can identify it/ like so: /*X*/*vIngu'laH* /I can identify X./ As far as the main clause is concerned, /X/ is a black box, internally any noun phrase it wants to be. So, let's suppose we start with a phrase, *DujDaq jIHaw'*/I flee on a ship./ Let's us further suppose... and bear with me here... that we don't have to make the head noun the subject or object of the relative clause. What if we can say *DujDaq jIHaw'bogh*/ship on which I flee./ Being the only noun in the clause, it's the only candidate for head noun. Let's suppose that it is. Just suppose. Now just take the noun phrase as a black box and stick it into the main sentence, *vIngu'laH*/I can identify it./**We get: *DujDaq jIHaw'bogh vIngu'laH* /I can identify the ship in which I fled. /As far as the main sentence goes, this is not a locative, just a regular noun phrase. // Yes, yes, I realize that the listener has no idea that *DujDaq jIHaw'bogh* is supposed to be a unit and that I'm not actually identifying something while I'm on a ship. I remember that Okrand didn't agree to this in his interview. All I'm saying is, it doesn't /actually/ contradict TKD, and Okrand didn't /actually/ say you can't do it. The phrasing used in TKD makes such a construction not completely impossible. There's one major problem with this idea: if you need to use main-sentence syntactic suffixes on the relative clause, you have to attach them to the head noun, which means the main sentence /does/ see the inner parts of the relative clause, so it's not really a black box after all. Note: I'm not advocating for this idea here. I'm just publicly speculating. The Ship In Which I Fled Problem is one of those things that I constantly run up against and would like to pound into the ground. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name

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'e', net, -Daq speculation
by demonchaux.aurelie 30 Apr '18

30 Apr '18

Savan, tlhIngan Hol jatlhwI'pu'! I have been wondering for a couple of days now whether the sentence pronouns {'e'} and {net} might take the noun suffix {-Daq} to refer to the location where the previous sentence took place. From the TKD, as far as I can tell nothing explicitly prohibits adding any suffix to these pronouns - only their usage in sentence-as-object constructions is described, but if you consider that the TKD only gives a grammatical outline of Klingon, well then maybe other kinds of usage also exist. Imagine if we could write: (?) {paq laD HoD, 'e'Daq jIba'} = I sit where the captain read the book (?) {Hegh Subvam netDaq jaHQo'} = the place where this hero died is avoided like the plague What do you think? Does it seem to make sense to you the same way it does for me? ghItlhjaj Envoyé depuis mon smartphone Samsung Galaxy.

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Klingon Word of the Day: DIr tutlh
by Klingon Word of the Day 30 Apr '18

30 Apr '18

Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, April 30, 2018 Klingon word: DIr tutlh Part of speech: noun Definition: tattoo Source: Marc Okrand email to Qov 3 October 2017 This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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Klingon Word of the Day: ghap
by Klingon Word of the Day 30 Apr '18

30 Apr '18

Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, April 28, 2018 Klingon word: ghap Part of speech: conj Definition: or, either/or (joining nouns) Source: TKD This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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