tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Oct 28 10:32:52 2010
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RE: A request for assistance
ghItlhta' voragh
> <sigh> Clearly my etymology drove my imagination.
>
> Hmm... {nay} "marry (bride does this)" (v.) vs. {nay'} "course,
> dish (at a meal)" (n.). Looks like spelling it *{tlhoghnay} may
> preserve that etymology after all!
Ah, very true!
ghItlhta' voragh
> Not a perfume, but a virus:
>
> "Worf found the smell of a Quazulu VIII virus similar to the
> Throgni." [Star Trek Encyclopedia, p.219]
Aye, but it was technically the perfume which bore the virus that carried the scent, not the virus itself.
ghItlhta' Fiat Knox
> A good job the original poster wasn't asking for assistance
> in translating "the latticifer ontogeny of the Kaladian thorn
> flower," then.
I think I'd have a hard time just translating that into my own mother tongue :P