tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jun 07 09:35:23 1995
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Re: Staff Writers and their tlhIngan Holqoq
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Staff Writers and their tlhIngan Holqoq
- Date: Wed, 07 Jun 95 12:35:51 EST
On Wed, 7 Jun 1995 Heidi Wessman said:
>On Tue, 6 Jun 1995, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
>
>> A woman at a negative angle makes me think
>> of someone lying on a situp-bench, with her head below her feet.
>> Um, maybe that does indicate something in Klingon culture, but it
>> doesn't seem to me that a throwaway line in an episode is the way
>> to tell us that.
>
>Hmmmm... Maybe it's a "clever" way of saying...
>
>Well, it looks like it could allude to all sorts of nasty terms
>sometimes applied to women of loose morals. Staff writers (and some
>triggers) are notorious for making up words to explain
>untranslatables.
>
>Hmmmm... a woman at a negative angle... sound potentially insulting
>to me, depending on the insinuation.
>
>-----------
>chuQun, completely vertical.
Another meaning could be gotten from the context. I was thinking that
<be'taH> might mean "less than a woman". A definite insult from a
full Klingon to a pitiful Terran. But I really dislike this usage.
r'Hul, completely vertical, unfortunately.{{;-) >