tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 03 06:12:32 1997
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Klingon Honor
- From: [email protected] (Bill Willmerdinger)
- Subject: Klingon Honor
- Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 17:30:04
> quvHa'ghach actually debuted in TKW. But you're right about quv being
> an afterthought. quv = "honor" (n.) and "be honored" (v.), as well as
> all of its compounds (la'quv, ra'ghomquv, yejquv), appear in the 1992
> Addendum to TKD. (yejquv is *heard* for the first time on CK.) Okrand
> probably needed it to come up with words for the first couple of
> seasons of TNG and was trying to avoid overusing batlh.
I suspect that {quv} is also one of Okrand's jokes.
For those of you who are familiar with _The Final Reflection_, recall that the
Klingonaase word for "servitor" is "kuve", a term usually mis-translated into
Fed Standard as "slave". Do slaves have honor? Apparently not according to
Klingons.
This is, of course, just me talking out my arse, but the coincidence jumped
out at me when I first got the revised TKD.
Qob la' (tlh.w.D. quttaj ra'wI')
tlhIngan Hol yejHaD qhojwI'