tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jun 20 17:37:26 2006
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Re: cannon
- From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: cannon
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:37:16 +1000
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ghItlhpu' naHQun, ja':
>Are all Klingon words from the novel Sarek cannon? i.e. <chal> flowers?
Ann Crispin states in the introduction to Sarek that Okrand is responsible
for the Klingon therein. I could believe it, too, as the pet name {'Iwoy}
"beloved blood" appears in the novel (p. 312), a stereotypical example of a
KGT-style body-part pet name - but Sarek was published three years *before*
KGT came out. The word {norgh} "shark; vicious marine predator" also appears
in Sarek, but in what we consider as canon, not until KGT.
Nevertheless, it is important to remember that the typographers did a pretty
good job of mangling the Klingon in it; /BaHwil'/ for {baHwI'} "gunner" (the
name of a ship) springs to mind. Also, almost all the capital I's in the
book were exchanged for lowercase L. An understandable error from mere
Terran typesetters. {{:)
jang ghunchu'wI', ja':
>Since {chal} means "sky" in our lexicon, I doubt "flowers" is a valid
>meaning.
"Flowers" isn't the meaning of the word, but apparently a type of flower.
Viz:
"When you are my wife, your beauty will blossom like /chal/ flowers in
spring." (Sarek, p. 58)
Perhaps the flowers are the colour of the sky, or perhaps the plant is
called {chal}, rather than the flowers. But whichever way one goes, just
because {chal} is already in our lexicon doesn't necessarily mean that there
can be no other noun meaning. {nargh} springs to mind.
QeS 'utlh
tlhIngan Hol yejHaD pabpo' / Grammarian of the Klingon Language Institute
not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' ngo' je
(Old roads and old friends will never deceive you)
- Ubykh Hol vIttlhegh
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