tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 26 10:35:17 1995
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Re: Origin of 'Iw Re: Milk
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Origin of 'Iw Re: Milk
- Date: Fri, 26 May 95 13:39:47 EDT
- In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 26 May 1995 13:26:42 -0400. <[email protected]>
David E G Sturm <[email protected]> writes:
\ On Fri, 26 May 1995 [email protected] wrote:
\ > I realized I may need to explain my rationalization here. Okrand has
\ > stated before, that when he wanted a word for blood, he just used the
\ > sound people made during the floating blood scene in ST6, "'Iw". He
\ > seems to like to use this method. i.e.:
\
\ Improbable. ST6 came out in 1989. TKD came out in late 1985 from work
\ done in 1984. I don't recall 'Iw being in ST3 Hol... Maybe a script
\ owner could confirm this. Finally, if one is going to quote Okrand, it
\ would be good to include the source. He has *rarely* spoken canonically.
A minor innaccuracy - the point still stands that the Klingon word for
blood is an obvious pun on the sound "ewww", one of several such in
TKD. But it is a good idea not to use "Okrand stated . . . " without
citing a source.
-marqoS
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