tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun May 10 19:16:40 1998
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Re: Another short story... KLBC
- From: Marian Schwartz <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Another short story... KLBC
- Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 22:15:58 -0400
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>BUT - is there a MO distinction between <quv> and <batlh> in their nominal
>use? I don't recall one, but if I am wrong, this suggestion might be
>incorrect.
Hmm... in the novelization of "All Good Things", Worf was thinking at one
point that it was rather strange that Klingon only had one word for honor,
{batlh}, which could mean everything from honorable conduct of a judge to
honor between friends, while Eskimo had so many words for "snow." (For the
record, I'd like to give Michael Jan Friedman honorable mention for using a
good deal of Klingon in his works. He also did "Kahless", which has a
number of phrases significantly better than the Klingon in "A Matter of
Honor.") This is wrong of course, but perhaps there is some type of
distinction along those lines between {batlh} and {quv}.
Qapla'
qoror