tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon May 27 10:13:50 1996
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Re: new vocabulary in ST:K (CD-ROM)
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: new vocabulary in ST:K (CD-ROM)
- Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 19:07:24 +0200
At 02:24 PM 5/23/96 -0700, you wrote:
>In a message dated 96-05-23 15:43:05 EDT, marqem wrote:
>
>>ghobchuq loDnI'pu' = "The Brothers Battle One Another"; Kahless
>> and Morath statue
>>This looks like a new verb, <?ghob> 'battle (v)', with the
>>reciprocal suffix <-chuq>. In what may be either an Okrandian joke
>>or just a funny coincidence, TKD has <ghob> only as 'ethics (n)'.
>
>In The Klingon Way, we learn that {ghob} also means "do battle" or "wage
>war."
If this is indeed the case then {ghob} would show, to me in any case, that
Klingons would not mutilate their enemies. (See my posting on pIqaD) Why els
would {ghob} have the meanings: "ethics (N)" and "do battle" & "wage war" (I
assume that these are Verbs.)
Qapla'
beHwI"av