tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Nov 27 21:55:22 1995
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Re: Two words from "The Chase"
On 27 Nov 95 at 6:52, Richard Kennaway <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just saw ST:TNG "The Chase".
> There are two Klingon words in it, but I can't identify them. One is the
> name of the Klingon ship. It sounds like "lataaa",
>
> The other word is a form of Klingon arm-wrestling. It sounded to me like
> "ba'Ha'qul". Some parts of the utterance are in the dictionary (e.g. qul =
> fire (n.)), but I can't find a coherent interpretation of the whole. Is
> this a new word?
Yes, these are Paramount words. According to the Star Trek
Encyclopedia their spellings are: Maht-H'a and B'aht Qul. I'm not
sure what the list's policy is about using such words; my own hope is
that MO will give us correct spellings (on Skybox cards or
something).
maSqa'
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> \X/ Richard Kennaway, [email protected], http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/~jrk/
> School of Information Systems, Univ. of East Anglia, Norwich
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