tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jan 24 22:02:52 1998
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Re: Stinking help
ja' peHruS:
>nonbogh yIvbeHvam neH vISuqpu'
>jIHvo' ghopDu'lIj yInge' vorSagh rur bIH
>
>vorSagh is something which stinks as if rotten. The word is not in any of the
>Klingon language books yet. It comes from the episode "Looking for Parmaq in
>all the Wrong Places."
You're giving half-remembered opinion as if it were fact again, peHruS.
The line in the episode uses the word "forshak"; your spelling is both
conjectural and controversial. The word also appears on page 86 of KGT:
"...it is most insulting to say that someone smells like rotting /forshak/."
Nothing says that forshak "stinks as if rotten." In fact, there's no
implication that rotting forshak stinks at all. The emphasis of that
paragraph in KGT is that odors are neither "good" nor "bad" in and of
themselves; any positive or negative associations are due to the thing
which is emitting the odor, not the odor itself.
-- ghunchu'wI'