September 2019 - tlhIngan-Hol

Klingon Word of the Day: vengHom
by Klingon Word of the Day 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, September 07, 2019 Klingon word: vengHom Part of speech: noun Definition: village Source: TKD:K-E 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: vatlh
by Klingon Word of the Day 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, September 08, 2019 Klingon word: vatlh Part of speech: verb Definition: coil Source: qep'a' 25 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: voQSIp
by Klingon Word of the Day 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, September 06, 2019 Klingon word: voQSIp Part of speech: noun Definition: nitrogen Source: KGT 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: 'eS
by Klingon Word of the Day 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, September 04, 2019 Klingon word: 'eS Part of speech: verb Definition: be low Source: KGT 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: yejHaD
by Klingon Word of the Day 05 Sep '19

05 Sep '19

Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, September 05, 2019 Klingon word: yejHaD Part of speech: noun Definition: institute, institution - larger than yej'an Source: KGT This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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On Klingon colours: Is the Klingon vision bichromatic?
by Michael Kúnin 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

It occurred to me that while the human colour vision is trichromatic, i.e., every colour can be represented as a three-dimensional point (Red,Green, Blue), the Klingon colour vision might well be bichromatic with just two dimensions, {Doq} and {SuD}. In this case, all colours Klingons distinguish can be represented as the following picture: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/235416538927202304/61779334843387086… Here I mapped the (Doq,SuD) Klingon colour to the (Doq,SuD,SuD) RGB colour to avoid the difficulty of getting white from combining red and green in RGB, but Klingons would see a (100%,100%) colour as white. So on the picture we see {qIj}, {chIS}, {Doq}, and {SuD} at the corners, the colours close to black are {Hurgh}, the ones close to white are {wov}, the ones away from the grey diagonal are {chum}, and the ones close to that diagonal are {tlhoD}. Also, we learnt a few days ago that {qalmuS} is used to distinguish colour from black-and-white. Otherwise, if Klingons are bichromatic, then they would see any non-greyscale colour as either a variety of {Doq} or a variety of {SuD}, so it is not much possible to use colour as a defining attribute of an object. No wonder they are irritated by other species making distinctions where they see none! I wonder if there is a Klingon word meaning "be grey".

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Klingon Word of the Day: qurme'
by Klingon Word of the Day 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, September 02, 2019 Klingon word: qurme' Part of speech: noun Definition: ingredient Source: qep'a' 26 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: jech
by Klingon Word of the Day 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, August 31, 2019 Klingon word: jech Part of speech: noun Definition: disguise, costume Source: TKD (90 KE, 129 EK) This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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color entry at kli.org
by mayqel qunen'oS 03 Sep '19

03 Sep '19

At the new words list of kli.org, at the entry of {qalmuS} for "color", there is a capital N, as is found next to names of cities, countries. Is it just a typo, or am I missing something ? ~ ckckcc

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Klingon Word of the Day: weQ
by Klingon Word of the Day 03 Sep '19

03 Sep '19

Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, September 03, 2019 Klingon word: weQ Part of speech: noun Definition: candle Source: TKD-A (185 KE, 187 EK) This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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