For the Klingon subtitles in episode 114, Marc Okrand could get Maltz to talk again, and revealed the following words. All of the following are direct quotes of Okrand:
{QIl} v. "be desperate", as when there's no way out, they have nothing to lose. This includes ideas like "last-ditch, do-or-die, hopeless, doomed."
{maleSya'} n. Malaysia
Think of {rang} as "be responsible for." As I mentioned, it takes an object ({ngoy'} does not). {rang} cannot be used as an adjective.
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Using {qaw} "remember" seems to work in your example of {Dochmey qawbogh} "things he remembers/remembered."
But I agree — it's a little awkward. And what one remembers should probably be described as something better or descriptive than simply "things."
We've got {qawHaq} "memory banks." Maltz didn't know what {Haq} in this word was. (He said it has nothing to do with surgery — that's just a coincidence.) But {qaw}, he said, is a perfectly fine noun meaning "memory" in the sense of the ability to remember or the power of recall. It does not refer to specific memories or recollections. That's a different word: {wov'on}.
It's more common to hear {wov'on qaw} "he/she remembers a memory" than {wov'on ghaj} "he/she has a memory," though the colloquial (English) translation of the former would be "he/she has a memory." Someone who remembers a lot of stuff or who can easily remember things (like dates or lines of a play) may be said to have a {qaw pov} "excellent memory."
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Regarding the verb "compare", I (Lieven) asked whether this would work:
{A-mey patlhmoH C} "C sorts his A" (for instance, his socks)
Okrand said:
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In general, yes. I suppose you could say this if A means "socks," but that would imply that the person doing the sorting likes or values some socks more than some others.
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(so it wouldn't be used to clean your room. It's still about ranking.)
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Lieven L. Litaer
aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany"
http://www.klingonisch.de
http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/DSC114
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