tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jun 21 16:18:58 2006
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Re: cannon
- From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: cannon
- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:18:42 +1000
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ghItlhpu' Voragh, ja':
>Clever. Like our color "sky blue", perhaps? Keep in mind that in the TV
>episodes the Klingon sky as seen from orbit is usually a swamp-green color.
Interesting; I didn't know that. (I have seen very little Star Trek; just a
few episodes here and there when I can catch them.)
>I'm not sure. IIRC she acknowledges in the preface Okrand provided a few
>words and expressions, but I suspect she may have added a couple of her
>own later. E.g. her use of the endearment suffix {-oy} on a proper name
>during the throes of passion: {Pityroy!}
Yes, that's a bit unusual, and not at all normal in Okrandian Klingon.
>{lam be'} (an untranslated epithet)
Obviously "woman of the dirt" or something similar. (One would have expected
{be' lam} "dirty woman", unless some sort of stronger connection between
Valdyr and dirt is implied.)
>some geographical names:
>{HatlhHurgh} (city? town?)
When I was reading the book, I understood it to be a {yoS}, but that was
just a guess based upon the first element ({Hatlh} "countryside"), since a
house in the countryside probably wouldn't be part of what Klingons refer to
as a {veng}. Nevertheless, it could be a city, and the element {Hatlh} could
be merely coincidence.
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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