[Tlhingan-hol] 19 new words to create

[mayql qunenoS]

> until you've tried very hard to express what you want
> using existing vocabulary, you just don't have any idea what's possible.

this is one of the most true and beautiful sentences I've ever read,
about klingon !

qunnoq

On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 12:48 PM, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Andrew:
>> I'm not requesting that the definition of "SuD" be changed so that it always
>> means "be blonde". My idea is simply that the definition in the dictionary
>> be updated from "be green; be blue; be yellow" to "be green; be blue; be
>> yellow; be blonde". "Be green" is one of the current three equivalents, and
>> yet no one is insisting that "SuD" must always mean "be green".
>
> The Klingon Dictionary is a printed book which hasn't been updated for
> 23 years. If you're serious about getting another edition published,
> we'd all appreciate the effort.
>
> But, also, that's not how dictionaries work. An entry for a word
> doesn't have to contain every single possible thing a word can be
> interpreted to mean in a particular context. If it did, all
> dictionaries would be enormous.
>
> Qov:
>>>>>>>I put on a skit at the last qep'a' of <jIboy SuD, wej mIl'oD je>. See
>>>>>>> if you can untangle that.
>
> Andrew:
>> [...]
>> I saw that teddy bear was "mIl'oD ngeb", but considering "mIl'oD" means
>> "sabre bear" (apparently an animal in the Star Trek universe?), I didn't see
>> how "Blondie" and "cute" could be used with something about a sabre bear,
>> and figured that someone may have been shortening the word for teddy bear
>> instead. So is it really a comment about a sabre bear? (I suppose I should
>> look this animal up on a Star Trek site.)
>
> Think of a regular (Earth) bear. What Qov wrote had nothing to do with
> Star Trek.
>
> --
> De'vID
>
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