[Tlhingan-hol] ghawran DIS chu' nabmey

[Steven Boozer]

mayql qunenoS wrote:
>> qen jabbI'ID wo' luwoHpu' nochmaj
>> recently an imperial transmission our sensors pick up

SuStel: 
> I think {woH} "pick up" refers to lifting something with your hands, and
> the like. I don't know if it can refer to detection by sensors.
>     qen wo' jabbI'ID lutu'pu' nochmaj 

Probably not:

  yIwoH
  [Pick him up! (untranslated)] ST6

  teplIj yIwoH 'ej pa'lIjDaq yIjaH 
  Pick up your baggage and go to your room. CK

But there's a line by Vixis from an early draft of the ST5 script - missing from the final cut (but included in the novelization) which the KLI published in HolQeD 8.4 - that may help:

  DIvI' Se' wI'IjtaHvIS DaH ngoqDe' wIHevta'. 
  We've just received an encoded message on the Federation
  frequency. (ST5 Notes)

Note the use of {'Ij} "listen".  Apparently Klingon ships routinely monitor (or listen to) Federation subspace radio traffic since it's unlikely the Federation communicated directly with Klaa's Bird of Prey.  Also IIRC Morska Station is referred to as a listening post - although it seems to be a border control post as well - in ST6.

There's also the verbs {jIH} "monitor":

  jolbogh ghom wa'DIch DamuvlaHmeH De' DaneHchugh,
   Se'vam yIjIHtaH 
  Stay tuned for information on how you can be among
   the first to beam aboard! STX

and {Daq} "eavesdrop":

  lojmIt poSDaq Daq pagh 
  No one eavesdrops at an open door. PK

  bIDaqchu' 'ej jagh De' lI' DaSuq 
  Intercept useful enemy information. MKE


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons