tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 09 15:10:05 2007
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Re: Klingon DarSeq
Thank you, I will try to get them posted to my personal web site in a few
days.
HAS
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Boozer" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: Klingon DarSeq
>
> At 03:19 AM Thursday 8/9/2007, Harry Smith wrote:
>>>I searched the internet to see if anyone has constructed any Klingon
>>>DarSeq
>>>and haven't found any.So as a smal contribution here is a sample file of
>>>currency.I am sending as an attached pdf file as most should be able to
>>>read
>>>that.Your thoughts will be appreciated. If anyone has found another site
>>>with such images I would appreciate knowing about it. Have fun.
>
> lay'tel SIvten:
>>How do we see unattached? The attachment didn't come through.
>
> Harry Smith wrote:
>>I am tryng to resend with pdf attached. perhaps the mail filter on the
>>mail
>>list won't let it thru but Il try again.BTW Officially the money unit is
>>supposed to be a coin but I wanted to try creating paper money for a
>>variant
>>of Klingon Monopoly I've been toying with and paper bills were the easiest
>>way to do this.
>
> The default email filters on my ISP's mainframe apparently strip off
> mass-mailed attachments from mailing lists.
>
> If you could mount the PDF file on the web then provide us the URL, we
> will
> be able to see it via our web browsers and give you feedback.
>
> In the interim, here's what I have about {DarSeq} in my notes FYI:
>
> *darsek*, a Klingon unit of currency (KGT)
>
> Since there are any number of phrases involving money that could be
> taken
> the wrong way if {Huch} is pronounced {Quch} ["forehead"], many tourists
> follow the Klingon practice of using the term {DarSeqmey} (...) to refer
> to money in general.
>
> DarSeqmey DaHutlh
> You lack money ("You lack darseks"). (KGT 194)
>
> During the Kot'baval Festival being celebrated at the Maranga IV outpost,
> Worf gave a street vendor a couple of coins for what appeared to be a bag
> of dried gagh. Later, Alexander wanted some money from his father to give
> to a man who offered to show him Molor's head in a box for five darseks.
> (TNG "First Born")
>
> In 2153 the Klingon Judiciary placed a bounty of 9000 darseks for the
> capture of escaped convict Jonathan Archer, dead or alive, which was
> considered "a fortune" by the Tellarite bounty hunter Skalaar. When we
> saw
> them, they appeared to be metal (latinum??) bars, approximately 1 x 3
> inches in size, and were transported in a box. (ENT "Bounty")
>
> Cf. also the nouns {DeQ} "credit" and {Huch} "money".
>
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>
> --
> Voragh
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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