tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Aug 03 14:54:47 1996
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nejwI'mey (was Re: Klingon CD)
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: nejwI'mey (was Re: Klingon CD)
- Date: Sat, 3 Aug 96 16:55:45 CDT
- In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 3 Aug 1996 09:06:05 -0700
>On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Will Martin wrote:
>> romuluSngan Sambogh 'ej HoHbogh nejwI'
>
>But doesn't this mean a probe that hunts and kills Romulans? Or does
>that depend on context?
> ----------
> dave yeung
Think of it as the Romulans' hunter-killer probe (i.e. the one the
Romulans use) vs. one favored by assassins of another species.
If memory serves, we saw a verengan Sambogh 'ej HoHbogh nejwI' on one of
the early Deep Space Nines (someone sent one of these Ferengi-manufactured
devices after Quark).
"Romulan hunter-killer probe" is also ambiguous in English. Are Romulans
the hunters or the hunted? But then, ambiguity makes languages more
interesting, qar'a'?
-- Voragh