On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 11:17 AM, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
Klingon word: peD Part of speech: verb Definition: snow, fall slowly (like snow) Source: TKD, qepHom 2017 _______________________________________________
peDtaH 'ej chIS qo' (Dutch magazine "Oor", Nov-Dec 2011, p.39: "Fifty Words for Snow" by Kate Bush)
[Someone refresh my memory: Was this example supplied by Okrand?]
For ages I thought it was just some random unknown Klingonist, but apparently it was Okrand after all! [Update, 11/24: Marc Okrand confirms via email that he indeed is the source
of the Klingon line. He explains that *peDtaH 'ej chIS qo'* means "It's snowing and the world is white." Okrand is thanked in the liner notes (with the Klingon expression of gratitude, *qatlho'*).]
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3558 As for Stephen Fry's pronunciation of the line in the actual song... well, he's gonna want to bring his universal translator if he ever visits Qo'noS.