Message: 2 Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +0200 From: "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> To: tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol@kli.org> Subject: [tlhIngan Hol] wishlist for TKD 3ed
Vocabulary:- What Dr. Okrand and I are looking for specifically are gaps in the vocabulary relevant to Star Trek. The original TKD was intended to cover vocabulary needed to say anything said by a Klingon up to Star Trek III. The second edition's addendum added a few things from Star Trek VI and the early seasons of TNG. KGT added some more things from TNG and DS9 as well. What we would like for the new edition of TKD is to be able to cover anything said by any Klingon character, or anything for which there should be a Klingon term, up to the new shows. This includes words made up by Star Trek writers which haven't been given a backfit into Okrandian orthography (e.g., things like "gorch" and "kajunpakt" before Dr. Okrand confirmed them).
While I was browsing the parody website amirite.com, I was searching for parodies of the Human League's "Don't You Want Me". I found a filkish song titled "Give Me Oomox, Human". I was confused, since I had never watched Star Trek, and thought, "Is this a Klingon thing"? I wikipediaed "oomox" and discovered that oo-mox, properly spelt with a hyphen, was a /Ferengi/ thing. Klingon doesn't have a word for it, of course -- yet. I suppose they would Klingonize this as something like *'u'matlh* ooor *'u'motlh*. So, although it's a Ferengi thing and not a Klingon thing, should Klingon have a word for oo-mox? Also, we were without *borgh* for a long time, but we finally got it. I don't know much about the Star Trek world that I haven't learned from studying tlhIngan Hol. I guess the Trekkies here could provide a long list of animals, plants, foods, religious concepts, practices, monetary units, sports and games, etc. associated with Klingons and other Star Trek peoples. Isn't there a list of non-canon Klingon terms at the website, too?