[Tlhingan-hol] International?

[Rohan Fenwick]

tlhobpu' Alex, jatlh:
> Did the Klingon TalkNow! CD come up with the tlhIngan Hol for
> "international?"

jang nIqolay, jatlh:
> I'd probably use an N-N phrase like Hoch Sep tengchaH, "every nation's
> space station", or perhaps Sep law' tengchaH "many nations' space
> station", or even Sep jIj tengchaH "cooperative nations' space
> station".

Ooo. That last one is quite nice. I didn't use {Sep} in mine only because I'm not sure whether a politically independent country would be seen as a {Sep}, or as a {wo'}. (The United States, for instance, is a single sovereign nation but is {'amerI'qa' SepjIjQa'}.)

taH:
> (You can use adjectives in an N-N phrase, right? I'm sure I've seen
> that before.)

Yep, you can indeed. The 'u' Invitation has {poH tuj bI'reS} "summer solstice" [sic - literally "the introduction of the hot period"]. In fact, we also even have one using {law'}: on the BoP poster is {lo' law' lojmIt} "utility hatch" - literally "many-uses hatch".

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