tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 07 08:14:10 1998
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Re: jImugh -- HIQaH!
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: jImugh -- HIQaH!
- Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 10:11:48 -0500 (CDT)
: I'm working on translating the creed of my martial-arts group (Kajukenbo)
: into Klingon. It's not hard to translate the sentiments, but I've hit a
: brick wall: I need a way to translate the concept "to be at stake." Ideas,
: anyone?
:
: qoror
{pav} be urgent (v.)
- [No examples in canon.]
{potlh} be important (v.)
- tlhIngan qorDu' pong potlh law' Hoch potlh puS
Above all, the Klingon family name is highly valued. S13
- qorDu' SaHlu'chugh 'ej matlhlu'chugh vaj wa' tlhIngan ghob potlhqu'
devotion and loyalty to family is one of the most important Klingon
virtues. S13
- batlh potlh law' yIn potlh puS
Honor is more important than life. TKW
- potlhbe'chugh yay qatlh pe''eghlu'
If winning is not important, then why keep score? TKW
- tlhIngan wo' yuQmey chovlu'chugh Qo'noS potlh law' Hoch potlh puS.
The principal planet of the Klingon Empire, Qo'noS... S27
- nentay loptaHvIS tlhIngan potlh tlhIngan 'oy'naQ'e'
The Klingon Painstik is an important part of a Klingon's Age of
Ascension ceremony. S32
For the opposite idea:
{ram} be trivial, be trifling, be unimportant, be insignificant (v.)
- wanI' ramqu'
a very unimportant event TKD
- naDev qaS wanI' ramqu'
There's nothing happening here. TKD
- meH, naDev qaS wanI' ramqu'.
Bridge, nothing happening here. ST3
- ram meqmey
Motives are insignificant. TKW
- ram; ghIlab ghew rur
trivial as a glob fly KGT
Voragh Grammatici certant et adhuc sub judice
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons lis est." Horace (Ars Poetica)