[Tlhingan-hol] Juggling

[lojmIt tI'wI' nuv 'utlh]

{raQ} makes me think of “contact juggling”, which is an art unto itself. I stink at contact juggling. I can sort of do it sloppily in slow motion.

The basic three balls in the air, I do fairly well, even when they are not of the same size or weight, and even if they are other ball-sized objects that aren’t really balls.

But {raQ} seems really “hands on”, which regular juggling is more “briefly directed by hand contact”.

lojmIt tI’wI’ nuv ‘utlh
Door Repair Guy, Retired Honorably



> On Nov 1, 2014, at 6:00 PM, Fiat Knox <fiat_knox at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> You could consider {raQ}.
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> On Saturday, 1 November 2014, 21:31, lojmIt tI'wI' nuv 'utlh <lojmitti7wi7nuv at gmail.com> wrote:
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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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> lojmIt tI’wI’ nuv ‘utlh
> Door Repair Guy, Retired Honorably
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