[Tlhingan-hol] More new words from Maltz

[Robyn Stewart]

At 18:38 26/01/2012, Felix wrote:
> > matlh [...] gives us the vocabulary to classify all holes into 
> those that can and
> > cannot be filled?

>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.

That's an interpretation that I didn't take away from the 
filllable/non-filllable classification and I like it. I looked up the 
etymology of English vagina and it has had an anotomical meaning only 
for a hundred years or so, used to mean just sheath, from 
proto-Indo-European "break, bite, split", they say probably after a 
split piece of wood used as a sheath.

>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.

Unless it's a really loud bar.

- Qov