and now, lets go deeper into this rabbithole.. lets think of a word with only one meaning; lets take the word {yav}. ask yourselves: to a klingon, what does this word mean ? and the answer is {yav}. As soon as a klingon hears this word, instantly he will *feel* its meaning. but what if a klingon hears {Qu'} ? Surely he won't translate it to any other language, because to him {Qu'} is {Qu'}. He will rather *feel* the moment that he hears it, all the possible meanings of it, but he will feel them as one. We may have used 5 different words, in order to describe to ourselves its meaning, but to a klingon the meaning of {Qu'} is just {Qu'}; a {Qu'} which epitomizes the sum of our english explanations for it. And so, here lies the pearl, which we need to understand. Here lies another essential necessity we need to understand.. We must not strive to remember a multitude of alternate english explanations, for a klingon word. We need to take every possible explanation, throw it in the blender/mixer of our mind, and then "digest" the "juice" of this word. So, that when he hear the {Qu'} or the {vay'}, our thought will not become fragmented over a multitude of alternate meanings, but it will rather *feel as a whole*, what this word is actually supposed to mean. qunnoH ghoghwIj HablI'vo' vIngeHta' On 13 Nov 2016 1:33 pm, "mayqel qunenoS" <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:
If one is to look at his dictionary, he will surely see that often, for a single klingon word there are several english ones given in the explanation of that word.
example 1: {Qu'} duty, quest, mission, task, chore example 2: {vay'} somebody, something, anybody, anything, someone
If we put the dictionary aside, and examine ourselves, then probably we will realize one disturbing event:
Those of us, who regularly write klingon, tend unconsciously to associate such words with only one of their meanings and forget the rest. For example, I may tend to associate {Qu'}, only with "duty", and ignore the meaning of "quest".
Or -even worst-, we tend to think that such words possess only one meaning. For example we tend to think that {vay'} means only "someone", forgetting its additional meaning of "something". I still remember some time ago, writing {vay'} in the context of "something", only to be instantly corrected that it means "someone".
The worst mistakes take place not when you're trying to learn something, not when you consider yourself a beginner. The worst mistakes and misconceptions are settling in your mind, as soon as you believe you know something..
So, the crucial necessity we must be keeping in mind, is that just because we tend to use one word, with just one of its multiple meanings, this doesn't mean that this word doesn't have additional interpretations as well.
To forget this, or even worst ignore it, is to shove down other people's throats our personal preferences, and embarass ourselves by our own persistent stubborness.
qunnoH ghoghwIj HablI'vo' vIngeHta'