tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Aug 09 11:53:36 1994
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Re: Aaaarrrgh! Qu'vatlh! (was "Update: Okrand on the radio")
- From: d'Armond Speers <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Aaaarrrgh! Qu'vatlh! (was "Update: Okrand on the radio")
- Date: Tue, 09 Aug 1994 23:38:10 -0400 (EDT)
> Am I missing something, or did Okrand just give us the first
> authoritative translation of "fuck"^H^H^H^H^H^HQu'vatlh? Did he
> translate any of the other exclamations?
>
> Geno
>
Well, I'd hesitate to make this much of the interview. Don & Mike
weren't interested in hearing "there's no word for..., so we say...."
They wanted to curse, so he gave them the best he had, {Qu'vatlh}.
Yes, D&M took it and ran with it, saying stuff like "Qu'vatlh you!"
But I don't think he meant to imply that {Qu'vatlh} means *anything*.
It was rather off-the-cuff.
--Holtej
PS. There was only one other curse, they asked how to saw someting
like A-hole, and Marc said {yIntagh}. Same schtick as above, I
wouldn't take it as gospel.