tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jan 18 13:14:31 1996
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Re: yet another possible word... gulp
>Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 11:08:52 -0800
>From: "Banger-Troll from Heck..." <[email protected]>
>I hope this isn't beginning to annoy anyone out there, but I figure this is
>the perfect boucing board for several Klingon "words" I've come up with since
>buying my first {blue-covered} Klingon Dictionary. Well, here come two more
>possibilities, all concerning the seemingly open-ended "qoq":
What's open-ended about "qoq"? It's means "robot." Or it's a noun-suffix
meaning "so-called."
>qoq'Iq I assumed this would mean something along the lines
>of "Beautiful Weapon" {as per the original edition of the Dictionary}. I
>realize I should probably update it from the newer Dictionary (I believe it's
>something like "betleH"?), but I've since named a fan club after it, and I've
>grown a little attached to it...}
Huh?? There is no word or suffix "'Iq" that I know of, so what are you
getting at? "Beatiful weapon" would be "nuH 'IH". No "qoq" in there, no
"'Iq", no nothing. I'm lost here.
>De'qoq I looked this up as concerning a name for a character
>in my TREKWARS story {combining STAR TREK and STAR WARS}. The character was
>a refurbished Lore {as in, Data's "evil" twin brother}, now an artificial
>Klingon warrior. I took a bit of a literal meaning - "Data-robot" - that I'm
>unsure as to the diction of it.
"De'qoq" to me sounds like "so-called information." Maybe a file of
"information" that doesn't actually TELL you anything. It could also be a
compound noun "De'qoq" (using the noun "qoq" and not the suffix "-qoq")
meaning a data-robot. Maybe a robot whose main purpose is to serve as an
information-server/provider.
You HAVE to do something about your .sig. It's bad enough on a post like
this, but when you post a 2-line post and then a dozen-odd lines of
signature, it's really exasperating.
~mark