[Tlhingan-hol] Gleanings from Monopoly: Klingon Edition (MKE)

[Steven Boozer]

Voragh:
>>{'aplo'} is also used in TalkNow Klingon (TNK):
>>
>> wab qoSta' 'aplo' 	cassette (i.e. audiocassette)
>> 'ul 'aplo'mey 		batteries

lojmIt tI'wI'nuv:
> Then again, there's the problem of the meaning of "battery" in English. 
> People don't seem to realize that the term "battery" is a collective
> term meaning "one or more chemical-electrical cells", and the thing
> people think of as "a battery" is actually a cell. If your flashlight
> needs what most people call "two D batteries", it actually needs ONE 
> battery, consisting of two D cells.
>
> I have an original Honda Insight. It has a battery that consists of
> 144 D cells soldered together in a series of tubes that are wired
> together in an array. The array is the battery. There is only one
> array. There is only one battery. There are 144 cells in that battery.
> Almost every use of the word "batteries" is technically wrong.

What you call a "battery" sounds like what Klingons call a {HoS Hal} "power supply", i.e. a power pack/cell/module which powers some device:

  nISwI' HIch motlh HoS Hal qengwI' naQ tIq je lurarlu'bogh
   'oH tlhIngan nISwI' beH'e' 
  The Klingon disruptor rifle is a standard hand held disruptor,
   attached to an extended power supply stock. S14

Trek trivia:  In TOS "The Omega Glory" Spock investigates a pile of Yang bodies and finds drained phaser power packs (i.e. Capt. Tracey's reserve belt packs), clear evidence that Tracey helped in a previous battle in a blatant violation of the Prime Directive. Later Tracey wanted Kirk to order the Enterprise to beam down ten phasers with three extra power packs each.  This is the only time in the original series that reference is made to phaser "power packs".

BTW, a group of similar (large?) devices working as a unit - at least mounted on a starship - seems to be called a {DaH} "bank, array":

  begh DaH             deflector array 
  chuyDaH              thrusters (pl.)?
  Hong boq chuyDaH     impulse fusion thrusters (pl.)
  nISwI' DaH           disruptor banks 
  pIvchem lIngwI' DaH  warp field generation array
  pIvghor lIngwI' DaH  warp generation array
  pu'DaH               phaser banks
  So'wI' DaH           cloak array
 


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons