Hi everyone This is my first message to the list, how exciting. I am a bit unsure about {DI'ruj tej} being used at all because as far as I understand it {tej} is 'scientist' whereas metaphysics is strictly speaking not a science at all, it's a branch of philosophy, like ethics. At least this is true of the 'western' Terran tradition. Someone who engages is metaphysics is a metaphysician - I have never heard the term 'metaphysicist' used in English before. I agree their work is different to a physicist's but it's also very different to a physcician's :). The English language term 'metaphysician' shouldn't (properly) conjure up the idea of someone who does scientific experiments, although people (like the Beatles) commonly get that wrong due to the confusing history of the English-language term ('physics' was originally in Aristotle's day something that philosophers did rather than scientists, or more accurately there was no real categorical distinction between 'science' and 'philosophy' as we now understand them in the Western tradition). Of course, it's quite possible that the Klingon term *does* describe someone whose work can be appropriately categorised with our term, 'science' - maybe it's very advanced! But maybe it's also true that {QeD} can mean something broader than the narrow definition of the English term 'science' - 'study' or 'knowledge' or something like that. I am a humble beginner and I am sure others know more than me about this. As for mu'mey chu' - has anyone considered that {rejghun} could resemble the Australian rhyming slang term - 'Reg Grundies' - to mean 'undies'? On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 at 13:13, <tlhingan-hol-request@lists.kli.org> wrote:
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On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 at 18:36, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
As far as I know, the only Okrandian {tejpu?} are:
Hovtej astronomer mI' tej mathematician quntej historian yuQtej geographer 'otlhtej someone who studies quantum mechanics.
? while there are many more official {QeDmey}:
HolQeD linguistics Hov leng QeD ?Treknology? HovQeD astronomy
HuchQeD economics nughQeD sociology porghQeD the scientific study of bodily functions DI'ruj QeD metaphysics HapQeD physics no'QeD genealogy rayQeD genetics roSqa'QeD archaeology tamlerQeD chemistry yuQQeD geography
'otlhQeD quantum mechanics, quantum theory
Your list appears to be missing {qunQeD}, revealed at the same time as {quntej}, and {mI'QeD}, which appeared in Klingon Blockly in 2014 and which Okrand approved. (The revelation of {mI' tej} assumes {mI'QeD}, although weirdly, {mI' tej} was written with a space despite {mI'QeD} not having one, and {'otlhtej} appears in the same booklet without a space as well.)
-- De'vID