tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jun 26 08:52:48 1996
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Re: Klingon Cards
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>Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:46:06 -0700
>From: "Mark J. Reed" <[email protected]>
>I suggested this to Lawrence once, and the idea had at that time
>already come up at the first qep'a' (presumably in the now-famous
>Krankor poker game). It doesn't seem like a good KLI project precisely
>because there's not much to it - not a lot of linguistic merit. (I
>plan on creating a deck for my personal use, mostly for the artistic
>pleasure of designing the illustrations. . . but that's *completely*
>off-topic.)
Indeed, Matt Gomes and I had much the same idea; somewhere I still have the
designs we were working on for the suit pips. They were REALLY nice, I
recall; I even have a mock-up of the 2 of spades in a GIF someplace. I'd
really like to do this someday.
>However, since Klingonists do get together and play cards, it does make
>sense to be able to talk about it, so we at least need a list of names
>for the various cards, and other card-playing terminology. I believe
>such a list was developed and included in Krankor's column in one of
>the issues of _HolQeD_, but I am away from my collection at the moment.
Right... were those terms published? I don't remember. I suppose so,
since I don't remember you at a qep'a' and you seem to know about them. I
am away from references as well, but I recall some of what Krankor had
proposed... Queen was simply "be'", Jack was "puq" or puqloD I think.
HoSghaj meant "wild", and an ace was "wa' tIn" or "wa'mach" depending on if
it was used as a low card or high card. He even had fun bending some rules
or using non-transparent metaphores to add some colloquial flavor to the
expressions (hey, it's not canon and he never said it was, and subjectively
his deviations seem to me within the spirit of Klingon).
~mark
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