[[ [2013-10-27] added document Type: email Date: 12 August 2012 Title: [Tlhingan-hol] New words: screw and nail Author: Robyn Stewart (reposting part of an email from Marc Okrand) Summary: New words {Hut'In vIl} ~screw~ and {Hut'In} ~nail~ and {wIl} ~spike~. ]] Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:21:21 -0600 To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" From: Qov Subject: [Tlhingan-hol] New words: screw and nail After completing a 75,000 word novel in Klingon, I felt somewhat qualified to identify gaps in the language, and when the debate over aspect threatened to ask me to choose between friendship and linguistic integrity, I felt that something had to be done about that. Knowing Maltz's reticence to answer questions, I offered him, through Marc, a bribe in the form of a bound proof-of-concept copy of this world's first Klingon-language novel. I had three questions for him. Two easy ones: missing nouns from my story, and one hard one, regarding aspect. Maltz answered all three. I have to work again early in the morning and haven't yet eaten dinner, so I'm going to tantalize you with this until my airplane next goes in for scheduled maintenance and I can have a break. The answer to the first question, from Marc Okrand: ==== The word for "screw" is , which is, of course, a ridgy . Turns out is the word for "nail." Maltz also volunteered that the word for "spike" is . ==== Hut'In is an obvious pun, even for someone with my limited musical knowledge, and I think wIl is a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reference.  And it turns out wIl is extremely useful for my story, too. - Qov _______________________________________________ Tlhingan-hol mailing list Tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org http://stodi.digitalkingdom.org/mailman/listinfo/tlhingan-hol --===============6707678122255956902==-- [[eof]]