tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 26 13:35:30 1995
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Re: The `Ring Rhyme' in Klingon (fwd)
On Fri, 26 May 1995, Karl Dyson wrote:
> > HIvqa' veqlargh. I meant V = vowel.
> Erm.. for the life of me I can't figure out what you said.
> Something to do with attacking and nasty odours???
{HIvqa' veqlargh} means "Fek'lhr strikes again." Fek'lhr is a devil-like
being in Klingon mythology who rules {ghe''or} (Gre'thor), the realm
where the dishonored go when they die.
The sentence is a common replacement proverb. When a Klingon makes an
embarrassing mistake, he uses a replacement proverb to cover for it.
Examples of several replacement proverbs are found in the Power
Klingon audio-tape.
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