tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu May 11 09:33:59 1995
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Re: Darn It!
- From: [email protected] (Steve Weaver)
- Subject: Re: Darn It!
- Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 12:34:38 -0500
Thu, 11 May 1995 11:39:09 -0400 ghItlh ghunchu'wI':
>Steve Weaver wrote:
>> Surely someone has a "In this situation, I like to use ..." story?
>
>I tend to say {Qu'vatlh} to indicate an emphatic "Oops!" or to mean
>something like "I'm in big trouble." I am sure you're aware of the
>equivalent term (hint: it's scatological) in English. If I were in
>an environment where I spoke Klingon often, I'd probably shorten it
>to {va} to indicate a not-so-emphatic "Oops." Usually I've used it
>when I have made a particularly severe grammatical or typographical
>error in posting to this list, one which completely obliterates the
>meaning of what I was trying to say.
Now that you mention it, I did tend to think of {va} as the "scatological"
"Oops!" but the {Qu'vatlh} I thought of as a "Diefied" "scatological"
"Oops!"
>(Hey, check out the perfectly justified paragraph! Neat, huh?)
majQa'
vay' yIHub Hoch 'ej Hoch tIHub vay'
- DumaS
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Steve Weaver [email protected]