[[ [2011-02-06] added document [2013-04-11] minor summary update Type: email Date: 7 December 2010 Title: News from Maltz Author: Lieven L. Litaer (reposting part of an email from Marc Okrand) Summary: Brief description of the {qepHom HutDIch} in Saarbrücken, and introducing the new words {buq} and {ngogh} . ]] Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:29:49 +0100 From: Lieven Litaer To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org Subject: News from Maltz peqIm ghojwI'pu', jIQuchqu', DaH QInQuvwIj chu'mo' naDev QInmey vIlablaH. tagha'. Do'qu', DaH De' potlh vIlabqa'laH. wa'vatlhlogh vIngeHba'ta': The ninth qepHom'a' in Saarbrücken was a big success - again. This year we had 25 attendees, of whom 10 were new students. We have never had so many people, and we have never had so many new among them. I was even positively surprised that they all were really perfectly prepared, having read TKD completely, some even writing in pIqaD. During three days, there was a lot of Klingon talk, maybe not so long conversations, but many word plays, exercises, games like 'Iv jIH and qaDHom wa', and of course the practice of Klingon toasts at the bar. We even had a chance to talk to Maltz. He was not present this year, but he agreed to visit us next year, when we celebrate our tenth anniversary. Somone had asked about the word for "pillow" and suggested {QongDaqvaD meyrI' tun ghoDlu'bogh}. ---quote--- Maltz first said that Klingons don't have pillows and he wondered why anyone would want one. But he's seen them (somewhere) and knows what they are. So when pushed -- "If you have to call it something, what would you call it?" -- he said {ngogh tun}. A {ngogh} is a "block" or "lump" or "brick." He said he's seen humans eating {yuch ngoghmey} and found that strange. I'm not sure what form he'd prefer his {yuch} to be. He thought more about it and said maybe another way to say "pillow" was {QongDaq buq} "bed pouch," but he said that could also apply to a sleeping bag. Perhaps a sleeping bag is {QongDaq buq'a'} and a pillow is {QongDaq buqHom}. The word {buq} could be "bag, sack, pouch" or even "pocket." When clarity is needed, one could say, for example, {yopwaH buq} "pants pouch" or {wep buq} "coat pouch" for "pants pocket" or "coat pocket," but when the context is clear, {buq} alone would suffice for "pocket." ---/quote--- We had the opportunity to hear some other words, which I will describe in another mail. I hope you just enjoy these few first, and start a Klingon pillow fight. ;-) PS: did you see the pun already? Qapla' Quvar valer aka Lieven L. Litaer http://www.qepHom.de [[eof]]