July 2020 - tlhIngan-Hol

Klingon Word of the Day: Duy'a'
by Klingon Word of the Day 22 Jul '20

22 Jul '20

Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, July 22, 2020 Klingon word: Duy'a' Part of speech: noun Definition: ambassador Source: ADD This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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starting sentences with conjunctions
by mayqel qunen'oS 22 Jul '20

22 Jul '20

Would it be possible to start a klingon sentence with a conjunction ? For example, could we start a sentence with {'ej} ? Example: yaDDa' yaDDa' yaDDa'. 'ej QIn tetlh muvpu'mo' nuvvam, QuchHa'choHpu' Hoch. yadda yadda yadda. and because this person joined the mailing list, all became unhappy. Since in some cases klingon follows the english way of saying things, I searched for whether starting a sentence with a conjunction is correct in english, and I found that it is: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/starting-a-sentence-with-a-conjunction/ https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/words-to-not-begin-sentences-… https://prowritingaid.com/art/1228/starting-a-sentence-with-and-or-but-shou… So, the question would be whether it would be correct doing so in klingon too. As a side note to all this, I have no idea whether it is correct to start a sentence with a conjunction in modern greek.. Ridiculous isn't it ? ~ Qa'yIn

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Comic
by Will Martin 22 Jul '20

22 Jul '20

Holmey mu'mey je DaHaDmo' botIvmeH: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=3620 charghwI’ vaghnerya’ngan rInpa’ bomnIS be’’a’ pI’.

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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] relative strength of the epithets
by Becky Nearing 21 Jul '20

21 Jul '20

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relative strength of the epithets
by mayqel qunen'oS 21 Jul '20

21 Jul '20

There's the person who hits the horn of his car calling you an a-hole as soon as the traffic lights go green. There's the person who lies to your boss about you, in order to steal your promotion. There's the person who steals someone else's life savings. There's the person who lies in court sending an innocent man to jail. And there's the person who commits crimes too heinous to even describe. Who is the petaQ, who is the yIntagh, who is the toDSaH, who is the Qovpatlh, and who is the taHqeq ? On a thread which started on november 06 2015 with the title "tlhIngan cursing", charghwI' had written: > Sex has nothing to do with the phrase, “Don’t f with me,” or “Don’t f with that lawn mower.” > Sex has nothing to do with “The meter of this poem is all f-ed up” or “The tip of this > screwdriver > is all f-ed up." > Sex has nothing to do with the single word the mechanic utters when he drops his wrench > down the silo onto the nuclear warhead, setting off a spark that ignites the leaking hydrogen > fuel tank. > So, understanding that the f word refers to the act of having sex won’t help you understand > most of the ways the word is used. Likely, Klingon curse words are like that. And charghwI' was right. Perhaps the actual meaning of an epithet isn't of importance. But what *is* of importance is its strength in relation to the other epithets. When is it to be said, and in reference to who ? (or is it to whom ? ah, forget it, I don't care..) I think, that in the same way we've been given the strength of each one of the verbs of fighting, we needed to be given the gravity of each epithet in relation to the rest. ~ Qa'yIn

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Klingon Word of the Day: tIr
by Klingon Word of the Day 21 Jul '20

21 Jul '20

Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, July 21, 2020 Klingon word: tIr Part of speech: verb Definition: be arranged in a stack, be superimposed Source: qep'a' 26 This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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epithets used as adjectives
by mayqel qunen'oS 21 Jul '20

21 Jul '20

Recently, it occurred to me that we usually use (or that at least I use..) the epithets on their own. For example {petaQ ghaH}, {petaQvam yIbuSHa'}, {ghe''or jaHjaj yIntaghvam}, etc. But could we use an epithet as the first noun in a noun-noun construction, in the same way that we use the {baS} in {baS 'In} ? Could we say for example {petaQ 'orwI'vam} for "this petaQ pilot" ? Or is it that saying {petaQ 'orwI'vam} would actually mean "this petaQ person pilot", in the case where the {petaQ} word "includes" the concept of the "person" ? And another example could be {ghe''or jaHjaj petaQ ghomvam} for "may this group (which consists of petaQ persons) go to hell". Would that be correct, or would again the meaning be "may this petaQ person group go to hell" ? If not for anything else, because I know of one petaQ pilot, and I'd like to know how to wish appropriately all the nice things I'd like to wish.. ~ Qa'yIn

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qep’a’ cha’maH SochDIch and sim pizza
by Becky Nearing 20 Jul '20

20 Jul '20

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pluralizing non-klingon words in a klingon text
by mayqel qunen'oS 20 Jul '20

20 Jul '20

I just realized how ridiculous the choice is of pluralizing foreign words in a klingon passage, by adding to them klingon plural suffixes. Suppose I want to write "luckily there are wolves". If I write {Do' *wolf*mey tu'lu' je}, then this would be as ridiculous as writing in an english passage a greek word and pluralizing it by adding an english plural suffix. I've never seen in a greek passage, foreign words being pluralized by greek suffixes. Noone does that, since doing so would be ridiculous. Of course there are no Ca'Non rules about how to approach this in klingon, but personally, if I'd needed to throw in an english word in its' plural form, I'd prefer to do just that, instead of writing crap like *wolf*mey. It would be as lame, as writing *wolf*οι, i.e. pluralizing the english "wolf" with one of the greek plural suffixes. ~ Qa'yIn

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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] pluralizing non-klingon words in a klingon text
by Becky Nearing 20 Jul '20

20 Jul '20

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