tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 26 06:42:03 1998
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Re: KLBC: Counterparts
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Counterparts
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 10:32:00 -0500
From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
>{Quch} "be happy" -- {Quchbe'} "be unhappy". {Quchbe'} is
>apparently a neutral condition. The actual *opposite* of {Quch} is
>{'IQ} "be sad".
If {Quchbe'} is a neutral condition, then a better translation would
probably be "not be happy." "Be unhappy" does not seem to represent a
neutral condition.
Quchbe' tlhIngan.
The Klingon is not happy. (Not, "The Klingon is unhappy.")
SuStel
Stardate 98153.7
P.S. You know when you completely blank on a perfectly common word: you look
at it and can't believe that that combination of letters makes up the
concept you're so familiar with? That just happened to me with "happy." It
looked so . . . weird. {Quch} still clicked in my brain as usual, but
"happy" was totally alien. My transformation must be beginning . . .