tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 02 15:25:57 1996
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Re: Big Enterprise
ghItlh Dave Yeung:
>Isn't {-'a'} a type 1 noun suffix meaning "big"? Therefore, isn't
>{enterpray'a'} "big Enterprise", as opposed the {enterpray} meaning just
>Enterprise? Perhaps the Klingons first called Kirk's Enterprise
>{enterpray}, then when they saw Picard's they called it {enterpray'a'}
>meaning "Big Enterprise"
No. The captions read "Enterprise?" not "Big Enterprise"....Klaa was basically
saying: "Enterprise, eh?"
Also, {entepray} was used later in the movie without the -{'a'} so it isn't part
of the name of the ship in Klingon. The closest explanation that I've head is
either {-'a'} standing for "<the great> Enterprise", maybe with the tone
carrying the interrogation...or {'a'} as a separate word for interrogation (the
cartoon question mark theory)
Qapla'
-chIya'ghu