[Tlhingan-hol] Maltz about "The Klingon Art of War"

[Lieven]

Marc Okrand was so kind to vet some of the words used in Keith RA 
DeCandido's book "The Klingon Art of War", which happens to be released 
in German at this year's qepHom.

He said that he cannot talk about all the words, probably because there 
are too many, and he certainly does not want to say that they are wrong.

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naj dream is a verb that can take as an object something that is being 
dreamt of.  So qul naj is dream(s) about fire or dream(s) of fire.

So in Klingon the title of the story is a little sentence while in 
English it's been altered to be a noun phrase.

Maltz said ruv’etlh for sword of justice made the most sense to him, but 
he thought vo’ruv ’etlh might be an older term for the sword.

Maltz said he never heard the word QuchHa’ for those Klingons. He said 
that must be a very old word or a taboo word that had gone out of 
fashion or something like that. He said the only word he knew for those 
afflicted Klingons was a word used mostly by children — HabwI’ (one who 
is smooth) — but that maybe there was another word or a technical term 
that he just didn't know. He said that Klingons don't like to talk about 
this and maybe that's why he didn't know the terminology.

About the moQbara’ terms:
Maltz said he wasn't really qualified to comment on those. There are 
lots of old and/or weird terms associated with the moQbara’. There are 
sometimes three or four terms for the same movement or form, and Maltz 
was sure he hadn't heard  all of them.

For example, he was familiar with the notion of the hundred repetitions, 
but he's only heard the word wa’vatlhlogh associated with that (as in a 
phrase like wa’vatlhlogh qIp hit a hundred times) and never heard poHmey 
vatlh — but he wouldn't say it wasn't the term used by somebody or 
other. He said maybe these words come from other dialects or are altered 
from very old constructions.

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Lieven L. Litaer
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