tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jan 24 08:08:02 2014
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: ghItlh
> > Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, January 24, 2014
> >
> > Klingon word: ghItlh
> > Part of speech: verb
> > Definition: write, mark (upon), engrave, incise
quljIb:
> I still maintain that the reason {ghItlh} means "write" is that the first
> written words on {Qo'noS} were engraved in wood or stone, like runes, or
> pressed into clay, like cuneiform.
For a "modern" (future?) example of this, see "{ghIlgameS}: A Modern Translation". See the KLI merchandise page at /stuff/ghIlghameS.html :
In that spirit, Roger Cheesbro has brought Earth's oldest epic adventure
to the attention of Klingons throughout known space. Gilgamesh, a warrior
king, two-thirds a god, the hero of a tale dating back thousands of years,
speaks to us now not from dusty clay tablets marked with cuneiform but
from the shattered remains of a marooned Klingon vessel, its duranium
bulkheads incised with crisp lines of {pIqaD}. This is the epic as an
unnamed Klingon understood it, a tale of friendship and battles shared,
a story of loss and the search to defeat death.
There's a picture of the cover, showing the wrecked bulkheads "incised with crisp lines of {pIqaD}".
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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