[Tlhingan-hol] New Klingon Words tool

[Will Martin]

Dojqu’.

pImmo’ De’wI’meywIj vIlo’laHbe’, ‘ach latlhpu’vaD povba’ nuHvam DachenmoHta’bogh.

It’s one of the more interesting uses of the concept of distributed computing that I’ve seen. The benefits are obvious.

I wonder if you could modify it to replace the glottal stop during import with a character that didn’t trigger the problems you note, and if you could introduce that replacement character for any searches involving the glottal stop.

I have a much more primitive database that I have to manually maintain. I get around the apostrophe problem by having a sort field that uses the characters replacements:

a=a
b=b
ch=c
D=d
e=e
gh=g
H=h
I=i
j=j
l=l
m=m
n=n1
ng=n2
o=o
p=p
q=q1
Q=q2
r=r
S=s
t=t1
tlh=t2
u=u
v=v
w=w
y=y
‘=z

I manually create a spelling for each word during entry, like the sort field for {Qu’vatlh} is “q2uzvat2”, and then if I’m searching for a Klingon word, I just search for the entry in the sort field, which uses “z” instead of an apostrophe for the glottal stop, to avoid bad behavior on the part of the search engine.

As I said, it’s primitive. The variety of tools is one of the things that proves the creativity of different Klingon speakers.

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lojmIt tI'wI'nuv



> On Nov 18, 2015, at 12:13 PM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure how useful people on this list will find this tool, but I figured I'd mention it anyway.
> 
> I find myself going back to the New Words list on the KLI's site over and over, so I decided to write a tool that presents the list to me without having to go to the site.
> 
> It's written in PowerShell, and will run on any Windows 8 or later computer, or Windows 7 if you install Windows Management Framework 3.0 or later.
> 
> It's got a README.txt file in it; setup instructions are there. Short version: extract everything to a folder, then run install.cmd. For anyone who knows about PowerShell modules: just copy the Klingon folder to your PowerShell Modules folder.
> 
> It's a PowerShell module, so I mostly use it in the PowerShell console (a command-line environment). I've also created a GUI version for anyone who prefers that.
> 
> Available commands:
> 
> Get-KlingonWord
>    Return a list of words, their meanings, parts of speech, and sources. You can filter by any of these fields.
> 
> Show-KlingonWord
>    Same as Get-KlingonWord, except the list is presented in a GUI. Has a built-in alias, kword.
> 
> Sort-KlingonWord
>    Given the results from Get-KlingonWord or Show-KlingonWord, or a comma-separated list of strings, this sorts the list in Klingon transcription alphabetical order. This command allows piped input.
> 
> Update-KlingonWord
>    Updates the word list by downloading whatever is current at the KLI. This must be run at least once before using the module; the setup program runs this for you.
> 
> For help on each command, type "help <command>" in PowerShell.
> 
> You can easily filter in the GUI just by typing in the filter field, or you can set up more complicated pattern-matching.
> 
> Careful! PowerShell interprets the ' character as a string delimiter, so if you type words with glottal stops you'll cause errors. Enclose the words in double quotation marks to avoid this, or escape the ' with a backtick, `.
> 
> I won't be incorporating words not on the New Words list. This module doesn't contain any data by itself; it just downloads what's at the KLI.
> 
> You can download this module here: http://trimboli.name/Klingon.zip
> Your web browser may complain that it's a suspicious file.
> 
> Got questions? Let me know. PowerShell lets you do a whole lot with these commands that I haven't even touched on.
> 
> -- 
> SuStel
> http://trimboli.name
> 
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