[Tlhingan-hol] Story: ghuv = The Recruit - 20

[Robyn Stewart]

I could have given it a long form explanation but I wanted it to sound more casual. I imagine that the technical term is something more precise, but that the commandos have shortened it for day-to-day use. After all the English version doesn't mask all gases .. etymology cheat, I know.  

Thanks for proving that it was interpretable like that. We sometimes talk about poor Klingon being "trap door code" -- what was easy for the writer to translate to us nearly impossible for the reader to extract meaning from. 

- Robyn



On 2013-11-04, at 4:04, "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Qov:
>> SIp botwI' = gas blocker, gas preventer - you don't know what this is on
>> first read and I don't expect you to. I hope context and detail will make it
>> clear.
> 
> I understood this to mean "gas mask" on first read. However, I'm not
> sure {bot} is the right verb here, since it doesn't block all gasses,
> and we know that Klingons like to be accurate. Perhaps {SIp SuQ
> botwI'}? I guess what I'd like is a word that means "filter" rather
> than "block".
> 
> -- 
> De'vID