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Re: meQ (was Re: suggestions please)

MorphemeAddict ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol taghwI']

In a message dated 2004-10-19 12:34:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> and as a quality:
> 
>    Ha'DIbaHmey meQ Sop 'e' tIv tera'nganpu'
>    Terrans enjoy eating burnt animals.  CK
>    [sic! for {'e' *lu*tIv tera'nganpu'}]
> 
> This CK example is the problem.  Note too the grammatical error with the 
> verb prefix.  Perhaps this is just careless or a colloquial usage.
> 
> Perhaps, too, the speaker (Worf's brother Kurnn IIRC) was struggling to 
> come up with a way to refer to the bizarre Terran practice of heating 
> (burning? ruining?) perfectly good meat before eating it.  

It was the Klingon waitress in the restaurant scene:
[human male] "Is Klingon food always raw?"
[marc okrand] {reH tlhol'a' tlhIngan Soj.}

[klingon female] "Terrans enjoy eating burnt animals."
[marc okrand] {Ha'DIbaHmey meQ Sop 'e' tIv tera'nganpu'.}

I don't think Kurn (only one 'n' in TKW, pp 52, 64, 152) is in either CK or 
PK.  

lay'tel SIvten

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