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Klingon Word of the Day: robwIl
by Klingon Word of the Day 23 Mar '21

23 Mar '21

Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, March 20, 2021 Klingon word: robwIl Part of speech: noun Definition: nightmare Source: qep'a' 27 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: Hom
by Klingon Word of the Day 23 Mar '21

23 Mar '21

Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, March 23, 2021 Klingon word: Hom Part of speech: verb Definition: use the second toe Source: TKD (88 KE, 122 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: tey'loD
by Klingon Word of the Day 22 Mar '21

22 Mar '21

Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, March 22, 2021 Klingon word: tey'loD Part of speech: noun Definition: male cousin (mother's sister's son or father's brother's son), nephew (man's brother's son or woman' Source: HQ (9:3 p8) This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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Maltz about raQ vs. ruQ
by Lieven L. Litaer 22 Mar '21

22 Mar '21

While talking about other words, Maltz explained - through Marc Okrand - the difference between the verbs {raQ} "manipulate by hand, handle" (KGT) and {ruQ} "control manually, by hand" (TKD). The message is archived on qepHom.de: http://www.qephom.de/e/message_from_maltz_210322_raQ_vs_ruQ.html and can be found in the Klingon Language wiki: http://klingon.wiki/Word/RaQ --------------------------------------- [...] By the way, since you brought it up {raQ}, you might be wondering about {ruQ}. Or maybe you’re not but, at long as we’re here… {raQ} and {ruQ} are similarly defined. The difference is that {ruQ} is more likely to be used when the handling alters the configuration of the thing being manipulated and {raQ} is used when the thing being handled doesn’t do anything if it’s not being handled. So one can {raQ} a {betleH}, meaning move it around in various ways, but the {betleH} by itself isn’t doing anything. Indeed, one may {raQ} any (non-powered) hand tool. By extension, {raQ} is also used for creating a work of art, since the clay or stone or whatever just sits there until the {raQwI’} (so to speak) comes along. {ruQ}, on the other hand, refers to controlling or handling something that can or may do something on its own (or due to some source of power), but the manual intervention causes it to do something else or behave differently. So if your robot vacuum cleaner starts wandering off in a direction you don’t want it to go, you could {ruQ} it to get it back on track (by, say, picking it up and reorienting it). If you manually adjust something, that’s {ruQ}, since you’re manually determining or changing what the thing will do or how it will do it. You don’t {ruQ} a {betleH} — unless, I suppose, someone has come up with an adjustable {betleH} of some sort. (If one were to {ruQ} a work of art, that would suggest that the artwork is manipulable in some way, like kinetic art that has to be set up in a certain way to work properly and can, in theory, get out of adjustment or malfunction.) Finally, {raQ}, rather than {ruQ}, is used when manually controlling a ship because the person doing the controlling or manipulating is dealing with controls — switches and buttons or those holographic things they use on “Discovery” — but not the things that actually make the ship go or move in a particular way. If you manually control the thrusters by pushing a button or two (as opposed to letting the computer take care of things), that’s {raQ}; if you manually control the thrusters by physically doing something to them directly (yanking a thruster component or twisting something or banging on something), that’s {ruQ}. [...] --------------------------------------- -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://www.tlhInganHol.com

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jIpuv 'e' vIqaw
by Will Martin 19 Mar '21

19 Mar '21

chalDujmey ghaj juppu’wI’. *payper qab jey-tlhe'rIy* ghaj wa’ jup. mach. SuD. DopDaq pe’bIl qIj tu’lu’. cha’ nuv qenglaH. tlhopDaq ba’ wa’. ‘o’Daq ba’ latlh. ‘o’Daq jIba’. qaSlI’ *summer*. nIHDaq poStaH lojmIt. poSDaq poStaH Qorwagh. tlhop Qorwagh tlhopDaq nIn juvmeH jan napqu’ tu’lu’. nIn bebDaq ‘ay *cork*. *cork*vam yor jeq baS Sirgh. qung’e’ veghbogh baS SIrghvam ghaj nIn bal qorghwI’. leghchu’meH yorDaq baS SIrghvam ‘er’In SIHlu’. pa’ SaSchoH baS SIrghvam. nIn natlhlu'taHvIS ghIr baS SIrgh SaS. nIn ‘ar wIghaj? SIvlu’chugh, baS SIrgh SaS nejlu’. SovmoH baS SIrgh SaS. jonta’ vumchoHmoHmeH vo’wI’ tlhe’nISmoHlu’. ‘ul ‘aplo’ Hutlh chalDujvam. vo’wI’ luHnIS nuv. SaqmeH ‘ej SaqHa’meH puH nIl lo’. tIqnISbe’ SaqDaq. QIt puv chalDujvam. po’chu’ ‘orwI’wI’. SaqHa’ ghIq Hatlh chal je DItIv, ghIq maSaqmeH SaqDaq wIghoS. tIqbe’qu’mo’ SaqDaqmaj ‘ej maSaqtaHvIS SuS wIQeqnISlu’mo' ‘ej Hemaj waQmo' Sor woch, tlhoS Sor yor wIngeQnIS, ghIq nom maghIrchu’meH, poSDaq maDernIS ‘ej nIHDaq maronnIS. SIbI’ chaghchu' chalDujmaj. nIHDaq poSmo’ lojmIt, magh vIleghlaHchu’. nom tInchoHmo' magh ‘etlhmey vItoghchoHlaH ‘e’ vIHarchoH. jISeychoHchu’ ‘ej jIQapchoHchu’. ‘orwI’wI’ vIvoqchu’. magh ‘etlh yo rutlhmey. jI’IjDI’ SISlI'ghach rur. Hab SaqmeH Hemaj. mapaw’be’chu’ SaqDaq maH je. po’mo’ ‘orwI’wI’ ngeDlaw’ Qu'vam. charghwI’ ‘utlh (ghaH, ghaH, -Daj)

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Klingon Word of the Day: nav QIn
by Klingon Word of the Day 19 Mar '21

19 Mar '21

Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, March 19, 2021 Klingon word: nav QIn Part of speech: noun Definition: letter (message written on paper) Source: qepHom 2015 p.18 This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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Dates are set for this year's qep'a'!
by Alan Anderson 18 Mar '21

18 Mar '21

*qep'a' cha'maH chorghDIch* The 28th Great Meeting of the KLI is set for July 22-24, 2021. Details will be published by the end of the week.

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Klingon Word of the Day: Heghbat
by Klingon Word of the Day 18 Mar '21

18 Mar '21

Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, March 18, 2021 Klingon word: Heghbat Part of speech: noun Definition: ritual suicide Source: KGT This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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chan
by Will Martin 18 Mar '21

18 Mar '21

For no obvious reason, today, I’ve been thinking about the difference between the four points of the Earth compass and the three points of the Klingon compass. It occurs to me that likely humans navigated by the stars long before they noticed that suspended/floating magnets pointed north/south. Likely, for the traveling populations of the northern hemisphere (most of the early navigating humans), the significance of the North Star was noticed because of its stability in the sky regardless of time of night long before anybody had a concept of magnetic North. I’m not sure there is a parallel navigational reference in the southern hemisphere, since I’ve never heard of anything referred to as the South Star. Likely, once someone noticed that suspended magnets pointed in the same direction, consistently, they probably looked at one magnetic target and didn’t see anything in the sky of any significance, and then looked the other way and said (in whatever native language) the equivalent of “Well, darn. This thing is pointing at the North Star!” And so, North became the dominant reference point on the compass. It’s natural to come up with the direction the other end of the magnet points to, what we know as “South”. Then there’s the direction the Sun always rises from. Call that “East”. Then there’s the direction the Sun sets in. “West.” While the Sun rising and setting are both reliable navigational aids, one isn’t more significant than the other, but that North Star definitely gives North significance to North on the compass. Meanwhile, on Qo’noS, maybe they don’t have a North Star or a South Star. Maybe they never noticed that magnets have a subtle tendency to point north/south, or maybe Qo’noS doesn’t have a magnetic field like Earth does, or maybe instead of switching North/South magnetic fields every few million years, it happens with much greater frequency, rendering magnetic compasses less than reliable on Qo'noS. So, what’s the thing you can rely on to always happen in one direction? The Sun (or whatever they call it) rises in the {chan}. Look toward this {chan}. Standing, facing {chan} look over your left shoulder. That’s {‘ev}. Look over your right shoulder. That’s {tIng}. Why prefer the East over the West as the primary point of the compass? The human numbering system for time was initially created for use with Sun Dials. Noon was the easiest thing to nail down anywhere, so our system has two 12:00 readings with midnight derived from noon. We arbitrarily set the boundary between one day and the next based on midnight, placing sunrise and sunset equally between noon and midnight. Neither gets greater significance. Meanwhile, we know that Klingons place the boundary between one day and the next at sunrise. This suggests a greater significance for sunrise over sunset. They could have just as easily put the boundary at sunset, but they didn’t. Likely, this is because most Klingons probably don’t wake up significantly before sunrise, but most stay awake beyond sunset, so the active part of every day starts closer to sunrise and extends well beyond sunset. So, sunrise has a higher significance in the measurements of Klingon time, and it would be natural for this to extend to East having a directional significance over West. Sunrise is the time we awaken and arise. Sunset is some vague thing that happens sometime well before we go to sleep. When we awaken, we are well aware of the direction of the Sun. In the evening, we are probably too busy doing stuff to bother noticing the direction of the setting Sun. We surrender to sleep after sunset, and we don’t really like surrendering. Sunrise is when we conquer sleep once again. We might be aware of the direction of sunset as individuals, but collectively, it is the beginning of the day when we unite the face the coming day. We have no reason to place any importance on 90º from {chan} in either direction. Our early number system was based on three. Standing, facing in one direction, the three most significant directions are straight forward, and what our neck and eyes can scan to the left and right. Likely, Klingon maps show East as “up” or perhaps “down”, if early Klingons recognized that all horizons eventually lead down, and the Eastern Sun is coming from “down”. If the Klingon emblem (designed by Matt Jefferies, after whom the Jefferies Tubes are named) also functions as compass points, that would suggest that the most significant pointer points up, suggesting that’s where {chan} is on a map, though the emblem doesn’t have equi-angular pointers, so {tIng} would be very close to South, while {‘ev} would be much more West than North, so perhaps the emblem isn’t literally used as a compass rose. It hints at {chan} being up, but this, like most of this argument, is speculative. A compass becomes useless at the North Pole on Earth, where the North Star is straight up and the compass goes nuts because every direction is South. Similarly, on Qo’noS, on either pole, {chan} varies depending on time of day. On Earth, polar navigation has to abandon the concept of absolute direction, replacing it with direction relative to landmarks. You can’t even use the stars, unless you cross reference that with your watch, or perhaps a GPS might work, if there happens to be at least three low-flying GPS satellites above the horizon. On Qo’noS, they might develop a time/compass navigational system, on the order of “head East (toward the Sun) at 14:28”, which wouldn’t mean that you’d wait until 14:28 and go toward the Sun, but would mean that you’d head in the direction that the Sun would predictably be whenever 14:28 gets here… … or maybe Klingons just don’t go to the poles because it’s cold there, and Klingons notoriously detest the cold. If aliens who like cold better than Klingons do land there and set up bases, leave them to it, unless they start heading toward the equator, and if that happens, fumigate with a few photon torpedoes and be done with it. You don’t have to worry about residual radiation because you don’t intend to go there after clearing it of nuisance aliens, and hey, radiation might discourage other alien settlements there, so it’s all good. charghwI’ ‘utlh (ghaH, ghaH, -Daj)

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Klingon Word of the Day: bo
by Klingon Word of the Day 17 Mar '21

17 Mar '21

Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, March 17, 2021 Klingon word: bo Part of speech: noun Definition: feather Source: HQ:v10n4p5 This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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