Am 01.12.2021 um 22:30 schrieb Steven Boozer:
My notes say that KCD also refers to a {lIghon Qa'Hom} or "Ligonian titmouse" -- a little alien animal that looks sort of {Qa'Hom}-ey. (Can someone check this for me? In all these years I've never been able to run KCD.)
I just checked the sound files, they say nothing like that. But the description text-file for the curse {Qa'Hom} reads: "little animal (eg, ligonian titmouse)"
To further confuse matters {QelIS boqHarmey} (Alice's Adventures) gives us {neSngech}, a "dormouse-like animal". A dormouse isn't actually a mouse but some of the pictures are certainly mouse-like in appearance, but with furred rather than scaly tails. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dormouse ) To expand this even a bit more: In the original version, Alice plays a round of Croquet with hedgehogs as balls. In the Klingon version, those are {woSwa'mey}, animals that can roll up to balls, but they are not hedgehogs. They are more like armadillos.
The discussion about this word came when when I tried to distinguish the "mouse" from the "hedgehogs". I first thought of using {Qa'Hom} for the mouse, but then realized that a) a titmouse is not a mouse, and b) according to KCD, it looks like a hedgehog. As this might have caused confusion, Maltz told me about the {woSwa'} and the {lIS'ab}. -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://www.tlhInganHol.com http://klingon.wiki/En/AliceInWonderland