Klingon Word of the Day: tarDIghaD
Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, November 02, 2019 Klingon word: tarDIghaD Part of speech: noun Definition: tardigrade Source: qepHom 2015 p.14 This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh@kli.org).
Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, November 02, 2019 Klingon word: tarDIghaD Part of speech: noun Definition: tardigrade Source: qepHom 2015 p.14 _______________________________________________ (qepHom 2015, p.14): Maltz was once asked for the Klingon word for tardigrade. He never heard of such a thing. He said just to use the Federation Standard word with a Klingon pronunciation: {tarDIghaD}. FYI: Tardigrades are microscopic and very resistant micro-animals that resemble eight-legged pandas, thus the nickname "water bears". Tardigrades are tough and can survive — but apparently not reproduce — in the harsh conditions of space. JOKE: “Tardigrade: the direction you turn when you decide to head back to your TARDIS" (SuStel, 11/16/2016) -- Voragh Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
How ironically it was that at the time of that word's creation, everybody wondered about its necessity, and then two years later it was used hundred of times in the Klingon subtitles of DSC, where the tardigrade was an important element of the story. -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/Subtitles http://www.klingonwiki.net/Word/tarDIghaD
On Nov 4, 2019, at 11:06 AM, Lieven L. Litaer <levinius@gmx.de> wrote:
How ironically it was that at the time of that word's creation, everybody wondered about its necessity, and then two years later it was used hundred of times in the Klingon subtitles of DSC, where the tardigrade was an important element of the story.
It was a coincidence. Nothing more. In 2014, the computer security company Kaspersky was looking for someone to translate a password analysis tool into Klingon. It estimated how long a brute-force “attack” would take to break a given password. Each short range of time had a comment relating it to things in everyday experience. As the times got longer, the comments got less ordinary. One was this: “Tardigrade — the hardiest animal on the planet can exist in vacuum that long! It could crack your password while being there with a generic computer, and it’s your luck it doesn’t want to.” That’s how the borrowed word, with its Klingon pronunciation/spelling of {tarDIghaD}, ended up in the lexicon. — ghunchu'wI'
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