[Tlhingan-hol] mu' chu' chabal tetlh

[qov at kli.org]

We're not so much asking for words, after all how would we know what words
Klingons might have, but for the means to express concepts.  Many of the
concepts we expect to be represented by nouns, and it's possible the
irrealis is expressed with a suffix, but we don't know.  I once asked
something like, "how do I express the idea of controlling an airplane to
maintain a particular orientation with respect to the horizon?" and back
came a whole raft of words, including verbs for motions about different
axes, a noun for horizon, and  a verb meaning 'be in an attitude.'

Even when learning a natural language I try to elicit vocabulary that way.
"What do I say to someone the first time I see them during the day? Is it
different if they are in my family, older or younger, or if I need to be
formal?"  I learn so much more than if I just ask, "How do you say 'Good
Morning' in your language?"  

 

It wouldn't make any sense for us to ask for "a verb suffix that indicates
that a statement is hypothetical" or something like that, because then were
making up the language, not Okrand. 

 

- Qov

 

From: Dillon, Kyle [mailto:kyledi at spu.edu] 
Sent: April 29, 2016 9:24
To: qurgh lungqIj
Cc: tlhIngan-Hol at kli.org
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] mu' chu' chabal tetlh

 

Has he offered to do something like this for grammatical suffixes too?

 

-qayl

Sent from my iPad


On Apr 29, 2016, at 11:17 AM, qurgh lungqIj <qurgh at wizage.net> wrote:

Last year, at the qep'a', Dr. Okrand asked if we had a wishlist of words for
him. At the time we had nothing prepared, so we all ran around making a list
on the spot. This year, we plan to give him a list before the qep'a', so he
can reveal some things during the conference. 

To that end, for the past couple of months we have had an open post in the
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/LearnKlingon/> Learn Klingon Facebook group
for people to make suggestions for new Klingon words or categories of words.
The suggestion period ended a few weeks back and now we moved onto the next
step.

I've setup a poll on the KLI website that groups nearly all suggested the
words into various categories. Now we want people to pick their top 3
favorites! You don't need to be a KLI member to vote in this poll, but you
do need to register on the site. This poll will be open for about a month.
Then the top 10 will be passed on to the KLI members for them have the final
say before we send them onto Dr. Okrand!

 

 

To vote, just head over to
http://www.kli.org/activities/qepmey/qepa-chamah-wejdich/words/

 

qurgh

 

 

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