tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Dec 16 10:36:50 1995
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Re: Crispin's Klingon
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Crispin's Klingon
- Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 13:37:33 -0500
Holtej writes:
>> veQ-nuj "I had to let those veQ-nuj handle me. I'm sorry now I just
>> didn't kill them."
>
>Hmm, "garbage mouth." I'm going to assume from the hyphen that we can
>take this as a compound. Say, ghunchu'wI', do you interpret this as a
>possessive?
Much as I'd LIKE to :-), I must instead agree that this is something other
than a noun-noun as described in TKD 3.4. I won't speculate on its origin
({mu' mung} = "etymology"?) and its true meaning, but it's obviously not a
compliment.
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj