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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Bullets in Klingon
by James Landau 31 Jan '23

31 Jan '23

>Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2023 10:29:49 +0100 >From: "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin(a)gmail.com> >Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Bullets in Klingon >On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 3:04 PM Andr? M?ller via tlhIngan-Hol < >tlhingan-hol(a)lists.kli.org> wrote: > >> On a side note, note that there's a prefix missing in the title. "Boys >> like you" should be {SoH nIrurbogh loDpu'}. >> > >It should be {SoH nIrurbog loDHompu'}, qar'a'? Although I'm not sure that >"boys" in this context means the same thing as {loDHom}. In English, >infantilisation is sometimes used as a form of affection, but Klingon >culture would probably view it as insulting. (There's a story here about an >unfortunate Terran who tried to flirt with a Klingon by calling her "baby", >i.e., {ghu}.) You can watch the official (animated) video for "Boys like You" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnaG3OaU5bw . Given the ages of the people in the video, the title clearly means "Young men like you" rather than "Male children like you". In qepHom 2021, Marc Okrand wrote: "In Klingon, a *be'* is a female of any age and a *loD* is a male of any age. To specifically refer to a younger one of these, add -Hom. You probably wouldn't use -Hom for anyone past the Age of Ascension, but whatever other usage patterns there may be are subtle and murky. In general, if you're not talking about children (however defined), stick with *be'* and *loD*." How about using the words *be'oy* and *loDoy* for when singers are addressing their girlfriends or boyfriends as "girl" or "boy", as in the line from the above video: "I'm so excited, boy, you're making me blush", or Colbie Caillat's "Boy, we go together like peanuts and payday" or the Kinks' "Girl, you've really got me going" or the Naked Eyes' "How could I forget you, girl?"? And I'm amused that you mention the *ghu* story -- I ran into something about that on the wiki just the other day.

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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Bullets in Klingon
by James Landau 31 Jan '23

31 Jan '23

>Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 22:04:05 -0500 >From: Alan Anderson <qunchuy(a)alcaco.net> >Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Bullets in Klingon >Maybe not. French calls it "bombe". Spanish is "bomba". Hebrew looks like >it calls it either a bomb or a cannon. We don't know what Klingons would >call the act of jumping into a pool in order to make a big splash. Interesting! Checking out https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cannonball#Translations, in Finnish and Macedonian it's called a bomb, in Dutch it's called a little bomb, in Portuguese it can either be a bomb or a cannonball, and in German it's a Sa'Hut-bomb. >Worf seems averse to swimming in the first place, so Klingons might not>even have pool-related jargon. Didn't know that! >>> Am I missing something? > > >You're missing the noun {nIch} "ammunition". Ah! Didn't think to go searching for that. Thanks! >However, you're also missing the noun {bobDar} "splash". I think >{bobDar'a'} would be a perfectly appropriate word to describe a "cannonball >jump" -- or at least the relevant result of one. You're right that we could probably just use *bobDar*. I do know this word, since I remember the discussion of "Splish Splash" that went on when it was revealed. Or we could use some imagery like *jorwI' bobDar*.

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Klingon Word of the Day: wu'DIy
by Klingon Word of the Day 30 Jan '23

30 Jan '23

Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, January 30, 2023 Klingon word: wu'DIy Part of speech: noun Definition: beaver-like creature 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: mItlh
by Klingon Word of the Day 30 Jan '23

30 Jan '23

Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, January 28, 2023 Klingon word: mItlh Part of speech: verb Definition: forge (metal) Source: qepHom 2016 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: vo'nung
by Klingon Word of the Day 30 Jan '23

30 Jan '23

Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, January 29, 2023 Klingon word: vo'nung Part of speech: noun Definition: phase (of a wave) Source: qep'a' 28 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: jungwoq
by James Landau 30 Jan '23

30 Jan '23

If you're going to do *vIyetnam* (Vietnam) too, don't forget *mangtay* (Thailand) and *mIyama* (Myanmar)! >Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 15:38:09 +0000>From: Steven Boozer <sboozer(a)uchicago.edu> >>Klingon word: jungwoq>Part of speech: noun >Definition: China >Source: TalkNow - Learn Klingon!, revealed 30 September 2011 >>SEE ALSO:>'aSya' Asia >choSan [North] Korea >Hanghuq [South] Korea >vIyetnam Vietnam >nIpon Japan

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Bullets in Klingon
by James Landau 28 Jan '23

28 Jan '23

I've been thinking for a long time about how to translate the song "Boys like You" (SoH rurbogh loDpu') by Who Is Fancy (ft/ Meghan Trainor and Ariana Grande) into Klingon. I thought, after we got *ruH* and *tapqej*, that we'd had all the necessary words. But then I thought about the beginning line: I'm at the deep end, cannonball jump I wondered what Klingons would call a cannonball in the swimming pool. I wondered if the war-ready Klingon people would derive it from their word for a ballistic cannonball, the way English speakers do. So what was the word for "cannonball", I asked myself.. I figured they'd say *tal* plus whatever the word for bullet was, right? But I checked the dictionary -- no word for bullet. No word for projectile. Not even a word for ballista. Considering the Klingons are notorious for talking about battle all the time, I thought we'd just HAVE to already have a word for projectiles -- one we could put after *HIch* to make a word for "bullet" or put after *tal* to make a word for "cannonball". But I can't seem to find one. Am I missing something? Or do people here just use a non-canon derivation like *pengHom*?

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Klingon Word of the Day: jonpIn
by Klingon Word of the Day 27 Jan '23

27 Jan '23

Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, January 27, 2023 Klingon word: jonpIn Part of speech: noun Definition: engineering officer Source: KGT (217 KE, 241 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: weSjech
by Klingon Word of the Day 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '23

Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, January 26, 2023 Klingon word: weSjech Part of speech: noun Definition: fabric, cloth, textile 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: 'ap
by Klingon Word of the Day 25 Jan '23

25 Jan '23

Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, January 25, 2023 Klingon word: 'ap Part of speech: noun Definition: dues, toll Source: qepHom 2020 This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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