[Tlhingan-hol] Juggling

[Felix Malmenbeck]

Some good thoughts. I agree that jaD feels like the wrong word here, but there is a description in KGT (where the word was first defined) which [vaguely] suggests this could perhaps also refer to targeted throwing:

== KGT, page 91 ====
(Note that {Soj woD} ["He/she throws the food away"], which refers to a regrettable activity, is very different from {Soj jaD} ["He/she throws or hurls the food in the manner of a projectile"], which, under certain circumstances, is considered a reasonable pastime.)
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To me, this sounds like it could either be somebody just throwing it all about and making a mess, but it could also perhaps involve throwing it at specific dinner guests.

If one were to use a weapon-related term, I think {baQ} may be the best alternative: "toss bat'leth from one hand to the other"
Still, even if this could be applied to balls, it doesn't really give me the sense that they're doing anything particularly acrobatic with the balls; it kind of sounds like one is just passing the ball from one hand to another, as one often does only as an intermediate step between the more majestic, arced throws.

In paq'batlh, {vo'} ("propel") is used to describe Morath throwing his father's sword into a lake (Lake Lusor? Or was it the Kri'stak volcano?).
I think this could potentially be useful, but one would still need some way to specify that one isn't just throwing the balls away.
{vo' ghIq vo'Ha'}? {vo' ghIq Hev}? {vo' ghIq Suqqa'}? {vo' 'ej He le' ghoSchu'meH Dev}?

jISovbe'.

> 1 nov 2014 kl. 22:31 skrev lojmIt tI'wI' nuv 'utlh <lojmitti7wi7nuv at gmail.com>:
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> I wanted to write brief directions describing how to juggle when I realize, we don’t have a word for “catch”. We have {jon} for “capture”, but that’s not like catching a ball. We also have no word for “throw”, like tossing a ball at a target. We have (jaD}, but that definition goes out of its way to suggest there is no target. It’s like tossing around an enemy’s head after a battle.
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> If you just wanted a to give a vague description, you could say that juggling balls is {moQmey jaD}, but that’s what it looks like to someone who never actually juggles.
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> I could use {baH}, but that’s like using {Duj} for a canoe. We all know that {Duj} refers to a SPACE ship, and we stretch the word out of personal need to describe water ships and other vehicles.
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> I could use {chuH}, but I’m not juggling spears, and I’m not throwing anything a great distance.
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> I hold two balls in my right hand (ball one and ball three), and I hold ball two in my left hand. I toss ball one in order that my left hand catches it. 
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> I toss ball two in order that my right hand catches it, and in order to empty my left hand, ready to catch ball one. I catch ball one.
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> I toss ball three in order that my left hand catches it, and in order to empty my right hand, ready to catch ball two. I catch ball two.
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> I toss ball one in order that my right hand catches it, and in order to empty my left hand, ready to catch ball three. I catch ball three.
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> The goal of each toss is to make the catch easy. Tossing well is important. {potlh tosschu’ghach}. 
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> Apparently, Klingons don’t juggle, or at least Maltz doesn’t.
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