Hi! Thanks loghaD for sharing this. I've added it to the wiki for future reference: http://klingon.wiki/En/Vilnius Regarding the pronunciation, I clearly hear {lIyetu'va} from Okrand. Also, that is the closest to what the orignal name of the country is: Lietuva [lʲɪɛtʊˈvɐ], When doing so, I noticed something I didn't understand, the final phrase. What so you hear there? Sounds to me like Hop lIyetu'pu'vaD lop qImroq lutIvjaj. It's possible that Okrand made a small mistake here. A form that would make sense is this: {Hopbogh lIyetu'vapu' lop qImroq lutIvjaj} "May the remote Lithuanians enjoy the celebration season." Also, the sentence order is weird, but as it's a toast, who cares? Enjoy your New Year's Eve! batlh DIS chu' botaghjaj! Am 30.12.2022 um 17:01 schrieb Felix Malmenbeck via tlhIngan-Hol:
Hey y'all!
The US Embassy in Vilnius recently posted an interview with Marc Okrand, in which he spoke a few phrases, including a word for "Lithuania":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU-u9h0qP-I <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU-u9h0qP-I>
The spelling of the word is not entirely clear: It sounds to me like *lIye'tu'va*, but I'm not at all certain about the qaghwI' after {ye}, nor quite certain about the qaghwI'lessness after {va}.
I figure we can let Marc enjoy his holidays without bombarding him with urgent demands for clarification, but we may want to make note of it for some opportune time.
The other phrases used are fairly standard, but an interesting note is that he referes to "the celebration season" as {lop qImroq}, whereas I believe in previous canonical uses of {qImroq} only natural conditions have been used as distinctions. It may be a spontaneous translation, and it is referring to a Terran concept, but as somebody who's used {qImroq} this way myself, it'll be nice to go on doing so with a bit more confidence.
//loghaD
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