Klingon Word of the Day: yang
Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, July 26, 2017 Klingon word: yang Part of speech: noun Definition: image from a (rubber) stamp Source: qepHom 2015 p.19 This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh@kli.org).
Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Klingon word: yang Part of speech: noun Definition: image from a (rubber) stamp Source: qepHom 2015 p.19
(MO via Lieven, 10/29/2015): A stamp (rubber stamp, a tool/device, not postage stamp) is a {toqwIn}. To use a stamp, you ink it up and then you {Dut} it ("slam [it] down"). The word for ink is {rItlh}, and the ink pad is called {rItlh 'echlet}. The image that results from using a rubber stamp is {yang}. -- Voragh tlhIngan ghantoH pIn'a' Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
Am 26.07.2017 um 17:02 schrieb Steven Boozer:
Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Klingon word: yang Part of speech: noun Definition: image from a (rubber) stamp Source: qepHom 2015 p.19
(MO via Lieven, 10/29/2015): A stamp (rubber stamp, a tool/device, not postage stamp) is a {toqwIn}. To use a stamp, you ink it up and then you {Dut} it ("slam [it] down"). The word for ink is {rItlh}, and the ink pad is called {rItlh 'echlet}. The image that results from using a rubber stamp is {yang}.
It is true that that came from "MO via Lieven", but the source that the KWOTD is correct as well, since that's where the word, including description, was published. Lieven.
On 26 July 2017 at 17:00, Klingon Word of the Day <kwotd@wizage.net> wrote:
Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Klingon word: yang Part of speech: noun Definition: image from a (rubber) stamp Source: qepHom 2015 p.19
I wonder if the image is only called {yang} if it's a positive image (the ink forms the image you want to stamp, rather than a negative image where the ink forms the background and the whitespace forms the image)? Because that's what it's called in Chinese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_(East_Asia)#Types (Otherwise, it's called "yin" in Chinese, of course.) -- De'vID
Am 26.07.2017 um 17:42 schrieb De'vID:
I wonder if the image is only called {yang} if it's a positive image (the ink forms the image you want to stamp, rather than a negative image where the ink forms the background and the whitespace forms the image)?
This is all speculative, but as I have understood the description, there is no difference: The {yang} is what the stamp leaves behind, i.e. the colored ink part, no matter if that forms the image itself, or the outlines. -- Lieven L. Litaer aka Quvar valer 'utlh Grammarian of the KLI http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher http://www.klingonwiki.net
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