[Tlhingan-hol] "Knitting" in Klingon

[Robyn Stewart]

"for" join = > vaD muv

majQa'! I can do cryptic crosswords, but I never can unravel the misused affix puzzles. I bet if you told Dr. Okrand about that one it would become real. 

- Qov

On 2013-06-28, at 18:13, ghunchu'wI' <qunchuy at alcaco.net> wrote:

> On Jun 27, 2013, at 2:57 AM, "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I recently came across someone using *{vaDmuv} as a verb meaning "to knit" (e.g., a sweater) on Twitter.
>> 
> Here is the full tweet from @KlingonKnitter on 16 June 2010:
>> vay' Sov tlhIngan mu' vaDmuv, knitting joq knitter? #klingon (translate: http://bit.ly/9AKLUU)
>> 
> I tracked the origin to the now defunct tweetinklingon.com web site, which was part of the promotions for the Star Trek Online game. It saved the original English for each mock-Klingon tweet so readers could "translate" what was sent. Those records are no longer available, but based on other samples of its output I am pretty sure that "tlhIngan mu' vaDmuv" came from "Klingon word for join", with the English input being "Anybody know the Klingon word for join, knitting or knitter?"
> 
> -- ghunchu'wI' 
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