tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jan 11 14:10:55 1996

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Re: _Memory_Prime_



>Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 07:39:24 -0800
>From: Joel Peter Anderson <[email protected]>

>    a pub called Hagh vulqangan ("The Laughing Vulcan")

Could be worse.  Naming places full sentences is actually not so bad.

>    an exchange between the barkeep and a patron:

>    "nuqneH, vulqangan?"

>    "bIQ."

Hey, literal use of nuqneH!  Alright!

>Barkeep spits to insult him, but the Vulcan wipes it up and almost touches
>it to his forehead (apparently a tlhIngan betrothal ritual), and the
>shocked bartender cries out:

>    "ghobe'!"

I think "Qo'" makes more sense in this case, but hey.

~mark


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