majQa'! My request for weather words made it to Maltz! Thank you, Maltz.

Is {ghugh} a noun or a verb? The entry says (n) but the English gloss "vocalize" is a verb. I have a similar question about the weather words like {vung}, {cheq}, and {raw}, which are listed as verbs but glossed as nouns. Most of the existing weather words are verbs, so that's not too surprising, but I do want to double check.

The odd note about {nev'aQ} makes me wonder if there's going to be a scene with a Klingon sarcophagus in space in Star Trek: Discovery (that is, assuming MO did get asked to do some Klingon for it after all, as someone suggested earlier).

Puns:

{yamtaw} "line" backwards is a rough transliteration of "what's my", as in the old show What's My Line?

{jItuj'ep} "mummy". I groaned when I figured this one out, which is the sign of a quality pun. "I'm hot" ({jItuj}) + "ep" = Imhotep.

{retlaw} "dent, indentation" backwards is "Walter", which suggests someone named "Walter Dent", but there's no obviously significant Walter Dent that I can find on Google... the mystery continues.

{DabqI'} "mud, clay, putty" backwards is a rough transliteration of "Ichabod". Ichabod Mudd was the eponymous hero's sidekick on the old serial Captain Midnight. (This word's been around a while but I just found out the pun recently.)

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 8:57 PM, qurgh lungqIj <qurgh@wizage.net> wrote:
Greetings all,

I've posted the new Klingon words online at https://www.kli.org/activities/qepmey/qepa-chamah-losdich/qepa-chamah-losdich-new-words/

We'll be working to get these added to the KLI's New Word List on the website, but I wanted to get the pages out to you all as soon as possible.

I also got to ask Marc a few questions and documented his answers:

I asked about {jIb}, {pob}, {loch} and {rol} after there was a conversation about it in the Learn Klingon Facebook group. {jIb} is only hair on the top of your head, {loch} is the hair on your upper lip, {rol} is the hair on your face that covers you chin/neck area, and {pob} is hair from the neck down. "Arm hair" is {DeS pob}. The words cover both the hair and the entire construction, so {rol} refers to a "beard" as well as the hair that makes up the beard. 

However, "ear hair" or "nose hair" is talked about using {pob}, and {pob} *can* be used to talk about "face hair" or "head hair" but it would be considered very strange to do so.

I asked about fronting nouns marked with {-'e'} as described in the TKD Addendum. Marc said that {-'e'} fronted nouns are marked and it should only be used in extreme situations. He said one could, if they wanted to, use this all the time but it would be similar to an English speaking using Shakespearean English all the time. 

SuStel asked on Facebook if {yaH} refers to any work place, or just military, and Marc said that it refers to any place where one does work.

I also asked Marc again about using {-Ha'} on adverbs. He said that if it makes sense, then {-Ha'} could be used. I offered the example of {tlhIngan Hol neHHa' vIjatlh} and he translated that as "I speak not only Klingon" as in "I speak many languages including Klingon". He say that {vajHa'} still doesn't make sense. 

yItIv!

qurgh



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