[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: tuqjIjQa'

[qurgh lungqIj]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 10:19 AM, Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu>
wrote:

> > Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, March 31, 2016
> >
> > Klingon word: tuqjIjQa'
> > Part of speech: noun
> > Definition: United Kingdom
> > Source: TalkNow - Learn Klingon!, revealed 30 September 2011
>
> (MO to qurgh [date?]):  Finally, for UK--You're right. I had forgotten
> about {wo' tay'}. I think, though, for the [TalkNow] CD, we should stick
> with {tuqjIjQa'}. If someone should ask why there are two names for the
> same country, I'd say that (1) it's not impossible for one country to be
> referred to (especially in a language/culture not of that country) by more
> than one name (Holland/Netherlands, for example), and (2) {wo' tay'} is an
> older name -- perhaps the Klingons who gave it that name were thinking of
> the British Empire.
>

I don't think that was a comment to me, but a comment to qe'San, the
translator of TalkNow. He included it in one of his emails he sent to the
list: http://klingonska.org/canon/2011-09-30-tnk.txt

qurgh
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