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qepHom-quotes from Maltz
by Lieven L. Litaer 05 Dec '22

05 Dec '22

Just to inform you: the qepHom booklet 2022 can be viewed on the Klingon wiki here: http://klingon.wiki/En/NewWordsQepHom2022 Additionally, for those who like to "feel" it, the booklet can be ordered in a printed form at the DKI's webshop: https://klingonisch.de/webshop/buecher/uebungsheft-qephom-2022/ -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://www.tlhInganHol.com http://klingon.wiki/En/Maltz

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Klingon Word of the Day: jum
by Klingon Word of the Day 05 Dec '22

05 Dec '22

Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, December 05, 2022 Klingon word: jum Part of speech: verb Definition: be odd, peculiar, unexpected, fishy Source: TKD, qepHom 2017 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: SIrIl
by Klingon Word of the Day 04 Dec '22

04 Dec '22

Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, December 04, 2022 Klingon word: SIrIl Part of speech: noun Definition: hook 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: jIn yopwaH
by Klingon Word of the Day 03 Dec '22

03 Dec '22

Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, December 03, 2022 Klingon word: jIn yopwaH Part of speech: noun Definition: jeans 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: cha'pujqut
by Klingon Word of the Day 02 Dec '22

02 Dec '22

Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, December 02, 2022 Klingon word: cha'pujqut Part of speech: noun Definition: dilithium crystal 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: chaw'
by Klingon Word of the Day 01 Dec '22

01 Dec '22

Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, December 01, 2022 Klingon word: chaw' Part of speech: noun Definition: permit Source: TKD:E-K 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: be'Hom
by Klingon Word of the Day 30 Nov '22

30 Nov '22

Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, November 30, 2022 Klingon word: be'Hom Part of speech: noun Definition: girl 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: ngong
by Klingon Word of the Day 29 Nov '22

29 Nov '22

Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, November 29, 2022 Klingon word: ngong Part of speech: noun Definition: experiment 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: chIw
by Klingon Word of the Day 28 Nov '22

28 Nov '22

Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, November 28, 2022 Klingon word: chIw Part of speech: verb Definition: express, embody, exude, epitomize Source: Star Trek Into Darkness, qepHom 2013 This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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«jIH je» and variations
by zrajm 28 Nov '22

28 Nov '22

Me, E.T., Thiago and pay'qagh discussed the phase «jIH je» on in the car here at the qepHom'a' in Saarbücken the other day (we were on our way to the party on Friday). – One of them said this topic has been discussed at some earlier meeting (a qep'a'?). I tried to search old tlhingan-hol postings, but I couldn't find anything on the subject. I've heard lots of people use the phrase «jIH je» to mean “Me too” – as in, for example, in an exchange like: «juH qach vIghaj» (“I have a house.”) «jIH je» (“Me too”) or «vIraS vIjaH vIneH» (“I want to go to France.”) «jIH je» (“Me too”) But I started to wonder what's going on in these phrases. I figure «jIH je» are abbreviations of the longer phrases «juH qach vIghaj je (jIH)» and «vIraS vIjaH vIneH je (jIH)». And, maybe, since the pronoun «jIH» is the only thing verb-like in the sentence, it acts a verb in the shortened phase, and the «je» therefore comes after it. (Though, with that interpretation, «jIH je» sounds more like “I am too” to my ears – but I remember taking about this with someone [HoD Qanqor? Seqram? Qov?] at a qep'a' at some point and getting pushback. – So clearly other people think differently.) But, what if «jIH» isn't a verb at all in that sentence? (Is there a verb requirement in Klingon sentences? If a lone adverb can act as a sentence [given adequate context] then maybe a noun [or a pronoun functioning as a noun] can too?) If that's so, wouldn't it mean that the sentences «juH qach vIghaj je jIH» and «vIraS vIjaH vIneH je jIH» should rather be abbreviated as «je jIH» (retaining the word order of the longer sentence)? Or maybe the response could even abbreviated to just «je»? – Though I figure the pronoun is quite likely to be used for emphasis since that is new information the responder is wishing to convey. So, what do you think? Is «je jIH» better than «jIH je»? And what are you arguments for your belief? – Or should the phrase be avoided altogether and expressed some other way? How? /maHvatlh P.S. «je» is classified as a conjunction in TKD (even when used after a verb to mean «too») so it's not a given (at least to me) that it is grammatical to use on its own. This is different from how TKD talks about the, syntactically similar, «neH» “only” (which can also come after both nouns and verbs) in that «neH» is explicitly called an adverbial. (I take this to mean that «neH» on its own it a perfectly fine sentence – though the number of contexts in which it would make sense might be limited.)

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