[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: Doq 'ej wovbe'

[qurgh lungqIj]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh
<qeslagh at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> If it's based off the English words, doesn't that ultimately mean that it
> actually becomes an English word of the day, with a Klingon gloss?

In this case I would say you are 100% correct. This entry is 100%
English-centric. It was created solely for the purpose of showing
someone who is searching my database one way to describe "brown" in
Klingon.


> Ah. Are you only using the categories of noun, verb and chuvmey for
> everything? I guess I just find the use of the gloss "verb" to be too
> simplistic here. You're exactly right - it is possible to say jIDoq 'ej
> jIwovbe' - but as you say above, they, not knowing how Klingon works, would
> throw in Doq 'ej wovbe' thinking it's a complete verb phrase for brown. And
> they might be very tempted to conjugate it as such, with a prefix only on
> the first word.

For the most part, yes. I stick with noun, verb and chuvmey. Although
I break the chuvmey down into adverbs, conjunctions, numbers, etc to
make electronically parsing sentences easier. Since this isn't a noun
and it isn't chuvmey and it's made of verbs and the English gloss
suggests that if there were a single word in Klingon to describe this
state it would be a verb, I went with verb. I know it isn't a single
verb, and if you put the words into the system it'll tell you the real
meanings of them with no mention of brown so if they fed back in their
phrase with only the first verb conjugated they would see it would be
incorrect.

As I've said, there are very few of these kinds of entries and I'll
just block them until I have the time to re-code them to something
different.

qurgh