On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 at 15:33, nIqolay Q <niqolay0@gmail.com> wrote:
majQa'Qa'! mu' qengHoD law' wIHevpu'!
DISvam law' mu' qIDmey QaQ.
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 8:30 AM De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> wrote:
* If {qalmuS} means "color", how is this reconciled with the note on KGT p.81 that Klingons have no noun for "color"?
Maybe it's reserved for scientific usage, not art. Or perhaps it only started to be used in the past twenty years since KGT came out.
It's obviously a reference to Natalie and Herbert Kalmus. Maybe it's only used for colour in motion pictures. Here's the relevant contradiction from KGT: --- begin quote KGT p.81 --- Compared to Federation Standard, Klingon terminology associated with colors is rather limited. First of all, there is no noun meaning "color". There is, however, a verb, {nguv}, which means something like "be dyed, stained, tinted," though it is seldom used except in the phrase {chay' nguv} ("How is [it] tinted?") or when suffixed with {-moH} ("cause") in the form {nguvmoH} ("dye, tint, stain"; that is, "cause to be dyed," etc.) -- for example, {ret'aq nguvmoH} ("He/she stains the knife handle"). --- end quote --- -- De'vID