July 2020 - tlhIngan-Hol

Klingon Word of the Day: voqHa'
by Klingon Word of the Day 20 Jul '20

20 Jul '20

Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, July 20, 2020 Klingon word: voqHa' Part of speech: verb Definition: distrust Source: TKD This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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lam Humanpu'..
by mayqel qunen'oS 20 Jul '20

20 Jul '20

wa' DI'on rap lulIn Hoch nguqwI'pu'. chaHvaD tor latlhpu' luneH; chaHvaD tor latlhpu' 'e' lupoQ. 'ej pIj torqangwI'pu'na' SamlaH. 'ach reH torqangbe'bogh vay' tu'lu', 'ej tagha' mu'mey qotlhbogh Hev lam Humanpu'vam. wa' qaDlaH nuv, cha' qaDlaH nuv, wej qaDlaH nuv; 'a tagha' vay' qaD nguqwI', 'ej ghIq wIvvam pay. DI'raq chaH Hoch nuvpu''e' 'e' luHar nguqwI'pu'na'. 'a Do' wolves tu'lu' je. ~ Qa'yIn

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Klingon Word of the Day: ra'Duch quv
by Klingon Word of the Day 19 Jul '20

19 Jul '20

Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, July 19, 2020 Klingon word: ra'Duch quv Part of speech: noun Definition: isosceles triangle (lit: honored triangle) Source: Marc Okrand at European qepHom 1/25/2014 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: wab labwI'
by Klingon Word of the Day 18 Jul '20

18 Jul '20

Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, July 18, 2020 Klingon word: wab labwI' Part of speech: noun Definition: radio transmitter Source: qep'a' 24 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: cher
by Klingon Word of the Day 17 Jul '20

17 Jul '20

Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, July 17, 2020 Klingon word: cher Part of speech: verb Definition: establish, set up Source: TKD This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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weird rIntaH uses
by mayqel qunen'oS 17 Jul '20

17 Jul '20

Usually, one sees rIntaH used with regards to actions which actually happened. SuHIv rIntaH maHeD rIntaH numagh rIntaH On the other hand though, there's no rule which prohibits writing: nuHIvbe' rIntaH nuHIvlaw' rIntaH For reasons I can't understand, there's something weird in "they've not attacked us and it cannot be undone". It feels like "they set out *not* to attack us, they didn't attack us, and it cannot be undone". Usually you set out to do something, instead of setting out not to do something. And it's even weirder to hear "seemingly/apparently they attacked us and it cannot be undone". I mean, how can you say that the attack cannot be undone, if you can't be sure it happened in the first place ? Unless you're certain the attack happened (which is the thing which can't be undone), and the "seemingly/apparently" has to do with whether it was "they" who did the attack or someone else. Go figure. Let alone the fact that we *can* write: nuQaHneS rIntaH Where we have the type-7 {-taH} being preceded by the type-8 {-neS}. Of course, they're on different words, but neverthless the "feel" I always got from the {rIntaH} was that it is a member of the type-7 verb suffix family. ~ Qa'yIn

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poS qep'a' Daq
by janSIy . 17 Jul '20

17 Jul '20

The qep'a' space is open and people have begun arriving. Feel free to show up and start checking things out and meeting other attendees. We encourage you to download the Discord app, but you can also access the Discord server through your web browser. https://discord.gg/ANKBkJ Once you are signed in to Discord, Tag the @KLI yaS to ask for admission to the qep'a' spaces. You will need to tell us the name or badge name from your registration. If you do not want to state those publicly, you can ask the @KLI yaS to PM you to ask for it. janSIy

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Klingon Word of the Day: lol
by Klingon Word of the Day 16 Jul '20

16 Jul '20

Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, July 16, 2020 Klingon word: lol Part of speech: verb Definition: be in an attitude (aircraft); be in a stance, be in a pose (people animals or martial arts) Source: HQ:v11n2p8 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: ghetwI'
by Klingon Word of the Day 15 Jul '20

15 Jul '20

Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, July 15, 2020 Klingon word: ghetwI' Part of speech: noun Definition: pretender Source: This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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jar DamaSqu'bogh yIngu' vs nuq 'oH jar'e' DamaSqu'bogh
by mayqel qunen'oS 15 Jul '20

15 Jul '20

There's the following link: http://klingonska.org/canon/1996-12-12b-news.txt Where 'oqranD explains why one should say {jar DamaSqu'bogh yIngu'} instead of {jarlIj qaq nuq?} for "what is your favorite month?". I've read this article, and I think I understand the reason why we can't say {jarlIj qaq nuq?}. But what I'm wondering is this: If we wrote {nuq 'oH jar'e' DamaSqu'bogh} would it be as problematic as the {jarlIj qaq nuq?} ? For ease of reference, I copy-paste here the relevant text from klingonska. *************** You suggested translating "What is your favorite month?" as: jarlIj qaq nuq? This one's a little easier to deal with. Your sentence literally means "What is your preferable month?" The basic syntax is correct. Question words (in this case, nuq "what?") function the same way pronouns do in questions with "to be" in the English translations. Thus, the question yIH nuq? "What is a tribble?" is exactly parallel the statement yIH 'oH "It is a tribble" (where yIH is "tribble" and 'oH is "it"). The answer to the question yIH nuq? ("What is a tribble?") would presumably be a definition or description of a tribble. This being the case, then, the answer to the question jarlIj qaq nuq? ("What is your preferable month?") would presumably be a definition of "your favorite month." But this is not what you want to find out by asking your question. What you really mean to ask is something like "Of all the months, which one do you prefer?" The first word in your sentence, jarlIj, means "your month" (jar "month," -lIj "your"). But given that what you're really asking is "Which month do you prefer?" it's not really "your month" at all. The "you" should go with the verb, not with "month." Which brings us to the verb. You use qIb, "be preferable," adjectivally (jarlIj qIb is "your preferable month"). I think what you mean is better expressed by using the verb maS "prefer" with "you" as the subject: jar DamaS "you prefer the month." If you want to highlight the notion of "most prefer," you can use the emphatic suffix -qu': jar DamaSqu' "you very much prefer the month." (In this case, since "prefer" involves making a choice, the one chosen is automatically the one that is "most" preferred.) So what about the "what" (or "which") of your original question ("What/which is your favorite month?")? When asking someone a question of this type, you are really asking him or her to make a choice. So just be a Klingon and order them to do so: "Identify the month that you very much prefer!": jar DamaSqu'bogh yIngu' DamaSqu'bogh "that you very much prefer" (DamaSqu' "you very much prefer it" plus -bogh "which," the relative-clause marker) modifies jar "month" and the whole phrase jar DamaSqu'bogh "the month that you very much prefer" is the object of the verb ngu' ("identify"), which is preceded by the imperative prefix yI- ("do something to it!"). *************** ~ Qa'yIn

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