The words we received from Maltz for this year's qepHom were not sorted by any system. I tried to arrange them by topics, which I will use in the subject line, so the discussions about the words are also sorted. voDchuch – This is a pretty large spider-like thing. It has nine legs usually but sometimes seven or eight – never fewer than seven unless the bug has been injured. A big spider on Earth would be a {tera' voDchuch}, but a small spider would not be a {voDchuch}. 'I' ghew – a bug that sort of resembles a beetle. This is two words. Humlaw' – like a ghargh, but with lots of wiggly legs 'obray'wal – This sort of resembles a scorpion; it runs really fast in a seemingly haphazard way and has a dangerous (sharp and poisonous) tail. -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://www.klingonisch.de http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/NewWordsQepHom2018
On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 at 14:43, Lieven L. Litaer <levinius@gmx.de> wrote:
'obray'wal – This sort of resembles a scorpion; it runs really fast in a seemingly haphazard way and has a dangerous (sharp and poisonous) tail.
Maltz apparently meant venomous here, not poisonous. Also, I wonder if Klingons eat {'obray'wal}, including the tail? If the tail were poisonous, then they can't, but if it were venomous, then they might be able to. -- De'vID
On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 at 14:43, Lieven L. Litaer <levinius@gmx.de> wrote:
voDchuch – This is a pretty large spider-like thing. It has nine legs usually but sometimes seven or eight – never fewer than seven unless the bug has been injured. A big spider on Earth would be a {tera' voDchuch}, but a small spider would not be a {voDchuch}.
{voD} is "bore", {chuch} is "ice", thus "bore-ice" or "Boris". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_the_Spider
'I' ghew – a bug that sort of resembles a beetle. This is two words.
The name of the star Betelgeuse (Beetlejuice!) is often mistakenly thought to mean "the armpit of Orion": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betelgeuse#Etymology
Humlaw' – like a ghargh, but with lots of wiggly legs
"Many humans" = centipede (the party game / team-building exercise where people form a chain and have to perform a task, like run a race, without their hands leaving the person in front of them)
'obray'wal – This sort of resembles a scorpion; it runs really fast in a seemingly haphazard way and has a dangerous (sharp and poisonous) tail.
Walter O'Brien is the main character of the TV series Scorpion. bIngo'! (I don't know why they do it, but I've heard some Humans yelling this when they check everything off of a list and I'm just playing along.) -- De'vID
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 1:59 PM De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> wrote:
bIngo'! (I don't know why they do it, but I've heard some Humans yelling this when they check everything off of a list and I'm just playing along.)
It sounds more like the humans are saying *bIng gho'!* *Step on the area below!* Maybe it's related to how sometimes humans will stamp their feet when excited about something.
On 1/29/2019 3:06 PM, nIqolay Q wrote:
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 1:59 PM De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com <mailto:de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com>> wrote:
bIngo'! (I don't know why they do it, but I've heard some Humans yelling this when they check everything off of a list and I'm just playing along.)
It sounds more like the humans are saying *bIng gho'!* /Step on the area below!/ Maybe it's related to how sometimes humans will stamp their feet when excited about something.
CLEARLY they're saying *bI'; ngo'*/Sweep it away! It is old./ Some Klingons report noticing that Humans tend to brush small tokens off of cards when they hear this phrase. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name
On Jan 29, 2019, at 14:13, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:
On 1/29/2019 3:06 PM, nIqolay Q wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 1:59 PM De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> wrote:
bIngo'! (I don't know why they do it, but I've heard some Humans yelling this when they check everything off of a list and I'm just playing along.)
It sounds more like the humans are saying bIng gho'! Step on the area below! Maybe it's related to how sometimes humans will stamp their feet when excited about something. CLEARLY they're saying bI'; ngo' Sweep it away! It is old. Some Klingons report noticing that Humans tend to brush small tokens off of cards when they hear this phrase.
Strange, I hear “bIng gho”: circle of the area underneath. I’ve also heard reports of humans manipulating small tokens on cards; apparently the humans focus intently on cards which are underneath circular tokens. Perhaps a human tried to say something like “gho bIng vIbuStaH” - I am focusing on the area underneath the circle - but got the word order mixed up. Or maybe it’s an archaic form, something like bIng'gho, similar to paq'batlh.
-- SuStel http://trimboli.name _______________________________________________ tlhIngan-Hol mailing list tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 03:13:12PM -0500, SuStel wrote:
On 1/29/2019 3:06 PM, nIqolay Q wrote:
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 1:59 PM De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com <mailto:de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com>> wrote:
bIngo'! (I don't know why they do it, but I've heard some Humans yelling this when they check everything off of a list and I'm just playing along.)
It sounds more like the humans are saying *bIng gho'!* /Step on the area below!/ Maybe it's related to how sometimes humans will stamp their feet when excited about something.
CLEARLY they're saying *bI'; ngo'*/Sweep it away! It is old./ Some Klingons report noticing that Humans tend to brush small tokens off of cards when they hear this phrase.
I thought they were telling me that I was old, and assuming that I must be a robot or some other inanimate object: {bIngo'}. But perhaps they were in fact talking to the item getting crossed off the list, which has fallen out of relevance.
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