[Tlhingan-hol] News from Maltz: Chemistry

[Robyn Stewart]

The concept I asked for was "be composed of" "comprise" "consist of", so I very much doubt it is limited to chemistry. We'll see what the Klingon word equates to.

Nice pun resolution.  I never see or hear those until I'm told.

- Qov

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{yugh} looks it'll be a very useful word -- is its use limited to chemistry, or could it apply in cases like {nagh yugh Hew} "The statue is made of stone" or even {tlhInganpu' neH yugh tIjwI'ghom} "The boarding party is made up of only Klingons"?

Another pun: {Sorpuq} backwards and transliterated is "kupros". From Wiktionary, on the etymology of "copper": From Middle English coper, from Old English coper, copor ‎(“copper”), from Late Latin cuprum ‎(“copper”), contraction of Latin (aes) Cyprium ‎(literally “brass of Cyprus”), from Ancient Greek Κύπρος ‎(Kúpros, “Cyprus”).

{ngIDvoS} backwards sounds vaguely like "soft thing" in English, and lead is a soft metal, but I'm not so sure about that one.


On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 12:24 AM, Rohan Fenwick <qeslagh at hotmail.com> wrote:
> ghItlhpu' 'antlhe', jatlh:
>> I think I have an idea who Shirley Silver *might* be... Remember that 
>> MO used to work on Mutsun, a North American Indian language from 
>> California?
>> Well, there seems to be a linguist with that name working on the same 
>> area – perhaps they knew each other?
>
> majQa', André! Well spotted. Marc does (or at least did) indeed know 
> Shirley Silver; she appears in the acknowledgments of his PhD thesis 
> on the grammar of Mutsun.
>
> Also on the California connection, I think that fits for {qol'om} 
> "gold" as well. The great California Gold Rush, widely accepted to 
> have begun in 1848, was triggered by a fellow named James W. Marshall 
> who discovered gold at a property in the Californian town of Coloma.
>
> QeS 'utlh
>
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