tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Dec 08 17:44:13 1995
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Re: [batlh Suvchugh vaj] ???
Alan Anderson wrote:
> >What am missing?
>
> "batlh" is also an adverb, meaning "with honor" or "honorably".
> {batlh Suv} can mean "fight [against] honor" or "fight with honor".
> (A true Klingon would consider the first meaning rather perverse.)
> {batlh Suv} usually means "fight with honor", and {batlh Sov} usually
> does not mean "know with honor", so there's only a little ambiguity.
>
> {vaj} also has two meanings: "warrior" or "then, thus". I wrote my
> tagline as a double play on words; it can logically mean either
> "If he fights with honor, then a warrior comes to know honor" or
> "If a warrior fights with honor a warrior comes to know honor."
> This ambiguity remains, but it doesn't affect the meaning. In fact,
> it's the whole point of the sentence. It is my attempt to match in
> Klingon the wordplay of the English "Know Kahless, know honor; no
> Kahless, no honor."
>
> -- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj
jIyaj
I thought it was something along those lines but I just couldn't quite
get it.
qatlho'
QetaH