[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: mon

[Will Martin]

qatlh Quj nov luQujmeH tlhInganpu’ ‘ej pabchu’meH mu’mey ngeD DIpoQ?

wIvnISlu’!

batlh SuvnISlu' pagh Quj Dogh QujnISlu’. 

QujnISchugh, mu’mey Qatlh taHnISlu’ba’. ngeDchugh Quj pabmeH mu’mey je, nuqDaq ‘oHtaH batlh?

ngeDlaH Quj. qay’be’. ‘ach QatlhnISba’ pabchu’meH mu’mey!

pItlh
lojmIt tI'wI'nuv



> On Aug 26, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Robyn Stewart <robyn at flyingstart.ca> wrote:
> 
> That is a hard sentence to parse without the translation. We have a long way to go before Klingon fluency. 
> 
> On Aug 26, 2015, at 7:13, Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu> wrote:
> 
>>> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, August 26, 2015
>>> 
>>> Klingon word: mon
>>> Part of speech: noun
>>> Definition: capital (of a place)
>> 
>> Quj wa'DIch juH qachmey mebpa'mey je qa' raQmey chu' monmey chu' je 
>> Custom OUTPOSTS and CAPITALS replace original Houses and Hotels. MKE
>> 
>> ngIq raQ - 200 QaS, mon - 200 QaS loS raQmey je 
>> Outposts cost 200 each; capitals, 200 each plus 4 outposts. MKE
>> 
>> wa'maH cha' monmey 
>> 12 Capitals. MKE
>> 
>> KGT 10:  In some of the larger cities on Kronos, particularly the capital First City ({veng wa'Dich}), there are pockets of immigrants from these other planets who maintain their languages and customs but do so pretty much out of the hearing of the majority population.
>> 
>> TREK TRIVIA:
>> The Enterprise maintained synchronous orbit over Gideon's capital city. (TOS "The Mark of Gideon")
>> 
>> A dispute on Ventax II with a Klingon craftsman over the construction of a house was settled by an outside arbitrator because the case involved an alien culture. (TNG "Devil's Due') This may explain the somewhat Klingon appearance of the Ventaxian capital reminiscent of the First City on Kronos - i.e. several large (government?) buildings resembling step-pyramids.
>> 
>> SEE ALSO:
>> veng            city (n)
>> 
>> N.B. do not confuse with the homophonous verb {mon} "smile, grin, sneer, snarl, smirk (etc.)".
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Voragh
>> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
>> 
>> 
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