tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Feb 27 01:10:31 1994
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Re: Klingon Insults
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: Klingon Insults
- Date: Sun, 27 Feb 94 14:08:22 EST
I had mentioned:
>> Last summer, one of the first things I said to Krankor in
>> Klingon was "SoSlI' je," my attempt at "So's your mother!"
>> spoken with all the derision and scorn I could put into it.
~mark replied with:
> Awww... come on... that's *just* what the pejorative
> possessives are for! "SoSlIj je" would carry the scorn even
> if the intonation weren't strong enough.
What can I say? I wanted to be mean spirited, but grammatically correct too.
;)
Lawrence
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:: Dr Lawrence M Schoen, Director ::
:: The Klingon Language Institute ::
:: POB 634, Flourtown, PA 19031 USA ::
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::