tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Dec 07 13:47:19 1996
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Re: <<yIngachuqegh>>
- From: [email protected] (JEFF ZEITLIN)
- Subject: Re: <<yIngachuqegh>>
- Date: Sat, 07 Dec 96 16:41:00 -0500
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T::>> That said, I have a question for the list at large - does
::>> <<yIngachuqegh>> mean what I think it means, and is it as
::>> insulting in Klingon as what I think it means is in English?
::>> And no, I'm not using it to anyone here - someone used it to me
::>> today, and I want to make sure I understand it properly before
::>> I go back and lay him out good.
T::>I can't tell... it looks like "yInga'chuq'egh" which is a cross between
::>"mate with yourself" and "mate with each other" because it has two type-1
::>verb suffixes, which isn't legal.
Hmmm... It's entirely possible that this is it; I perhaps
didn't hear (or he didn't pronounce) the glottal stops.
Based on the Consolidated Word List (TKD2+the New Klingon Words
Web page), there's apparently no verb <<*nga'>> (implied
meaning "mate with") - just <<nga'chuq>>, "perform sex" with
that funny notation of all parties involved being the subject -
which _does_ look like <<*nga'>> plus the type 1 suffix
<<-chuq>> - but are we sure that this is what it is? And if
so, what's the source? So, I tentatively interpreted it as
"go **** yourself". Apparently, I was close, and the meaning
_does_ fit the context. So, I guess I'm going to have to go lay
him out good, since I can't see a Klingon taking that as a
compliment...
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Jeff Zeitlin [email protected]
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