January 2025 - tlhIngan-Hol

Klingon Word of the Day: tun
by Klingon Word of the Day 23 Jan '25

23 Jan '25

Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, January 23, 2025 Klingon word: tun Part of speech: verb Definition: be soft Source: TKD (110 KE, 153 EK) 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: paQjen
by Klingon Word of the Day 23 Jan '25

23 Jan '25

Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, January 16, 2025 Klingon word: paQjen Part of speech: noun Definition: sequin, spangle Source: qep'a' 31 This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: re'chIv
by James Landau 22 Jan '25

22 Jan '25

The name Danny was actually the first thing that came to my mind, but when I googled "Danny headphones" all I saw were references to the Dany brand. It didn't occur to me that *DannI'* could be an in-joke about headphones and a Danny whom Marc Okrand knew personally, but if we have *yelneHSIQ* as the word for "vanadium", despite Chris Henley having nothing to do with vanadium, then that's a possibility. >Message: 2 >Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 23:23:54 +0100 >From: "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin(a)gmail.com> >To: tlhingan-hol(a)kli.org >Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: re'chIv >Message-ID: > <CA+7zAmPWZS51X4piYhK-eKca5zY2Vo+N8s2MrVfgCdrw_hU0dw(a)mail.gmail.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > >On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 10:31?PM James Landau via tlhIngan-Hol < >tlhingan-hol(a)lists.kli.org> wrote: > >> Then there's the Dany headphone manufacturer. I discovered the name when >> I was trying to figure out the etymology/pun behind *DannI'* (which was my >> chabal tetlh request, BTW). Maybe that's it, maybe that's not it, but I >> can't imagine what else it would be. >> > >It looks like the name "Danny". There are a number of words which are just >named after people in Marc Okrand's personal life, and this may be one of >them. Since Marc Okrand worked in captioning and movies, he probably knew >many people who were always wearing headphones, and perhaps one of them was >named "Danny". (IMDB does indeed show that he worked with a number of >people named "Danny" or "Daniel" on the Star Trek movies.) Or perhaps an >actor named Danny or playing a character named Danny wore headphones in a >movie scene that's particularly memorable for Okrand. (I can't think of >one, but I'm not a movie buff like he is.) I think those scenarios are more >likely than an obscure headphone manufacturer, but unless Okrand tells us, >we can only guess.

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Klingon Word of the Day: yaS
by Klingon Word of the Day 22 Jan '25

22 Jan '25

Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, January 22, 2025 Klingon word: yaS Part of speech: noun Definition: officer Source: TKD 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: jva
by Klingon Word of the Day 21 Jan '25

21 Jan '25

Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, January 20, 2025 Klingon word: jva Part of speech: noun Definition: a stuck person (slang), ditherer (slang), confused prisoner (slang), mixed-up prisoner (slang) Source: qepHom 2022 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: DIch
by Klingon Word of the Day 21 Jan '25

21 Jan '25

Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, January 18, 2025 Klingon word: DIch Part of speech: noun Definition: certainty Source: TKD 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: rubyo'
by Klingon Word of the Day 21 Jan '25

21 Jan '25

Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, January 17, 2025 Klingon word: rubyo' Part of speech: noun Definition: politician Source: qep'a' 28 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: jItuj'ep ngutlh
by Klingon Word of the Day 21 Jan '25

21 Jan '25

Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, January 21, 2025 Klingon word: jItuj'ep ngutlh Part of speech: noun Definition: mummification glyph Source: qep'a' 24 This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: re'chIv
by James Landau 19 Jan '25

19 Jan '25

Ising latch machines? chaq. Can't say I've heard of them myself. Then there's the Dany headphone manufacturer. I discovered the name when I was trying to figure out the etymology/pun behind *DannI'* (which was my chabal tetlh request, BTW). Maybe that's it, maybe that's not it, but I can't imagine what else it would be. >Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:24:36 +0100 >From: "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin(a)gmail.com> >To: tlhingan-hol(a)kli.org >Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: re'chIv >Message-ID: > <CA+7zAmNRTRQRGzM-q4mcGXY_j1hFODXVW+BeQtXbK1Yru+uo5A(a)mail.gmail.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > >I think what I'm about to describe is very likely a real coincidence (as >in, unintended by Marc Okrand), but an Ising machine is a type of computing >device which uses the Ising model (named after physicist Ernst Ising), and >a latch is a circuit with two stable states, and there are in fact such >things as latch Ising machines, but unless Okrand is *really* into >electronics, I doubt this is the inspiration behind the word. Although, who >knows, maybe he was looking for inspiration and just happened upon the term. > >-- >De'vID

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Klingon Word of the Day: bel
by Klingon Word of the Day 19 Jan '25

19 Jan '25

Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, January 19, 2025 Klingon word: bel Part of speech: verb Definition: be pleased Source: TKD This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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