[Tlhingan-hol] More new words from Maltz

[Felix Malmenbeck]

> And matlh still finds genitalia too taboo to mention, but gives us
> the vocabulary to classify all holes into those that can and cannot
> be filled?  And to think that there were days on which I thought I
> had exhausted the possibility of Klingon porn.

Now that you mention it, a good translation for QemjIq would probably be "invagination" (or "cavity", but that doesn't sound nearly as naughty), as it can be created through a continuous deformation, whereas a qung requires a puncture. In topological terms, adding a QemjIq is a homeomorphic process, whereas adding a qung is not.

Fun fact: When you work behind the bar at a physics yej'an, conversations such as this are quite common. I actually first learnt the word "invagination" (which exists in Swedish, too) when we were discussing whether or not a friend of ours (or, rather, his boundary) was topologically homeomorphic with a torus (it wasn't). During the course of this discussion I happened to imply somehow that ears were among the problems, and was promptly scolded for not realizing that ears are invaginations and therefore have simply connected boundaries.
I bowed my head in shame.