tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun May 14 16:04:10 1995
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Re: Darn It!
On Thu, 11 May 1995, Alan Anderson wrote:
> 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.
Awhile back, I think someone here posted that they heard Okrand on a radio
talk show. The DJ asked Okrand how to say "f**k" in Klingon and Okrand
replied {Qu'vatlh}.
> (Hey, check out the perfectly justified paragraph! Neat, huh?)
ghIHHa'qu'.
> -- ghunchu'wI'
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