tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 15 08:56:43 1996
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"Kahless" story book
A.Appleyard writes:
> The author of the story book "Kahless": I wonder how much he <did> read TKD?
> He seems to have seen a copy; but his only attempt at self-composed Okrand
> Klingon (DIS jajlo' = Dawn Cave) is in the wrong order. All his other examples
> of Okrand Klingon are examples taken from TKD. ...
An interesting point - he quotes the famous "a running man..."
proverb in his preface - with the exact mispelling found in TKW - the
TKD phrase section has it correctly spelled.
One thing I liked in the book (well, I liked the whole book and story;
I'm not troubled over the language) is the "jinaq" amulet - the symbol
of betrothal that Kahless and his beloved where.
If you take the spelling to be jInaQ "I be full, whole, entire" it is
a very nice token of betrothal. I don't know where he got the idea,
but I'll give him credit for what is to me a very nice concept.
joel anderson * [email protected] * [email protected]
mIghghachvo' yImej 'ej yIQaQ; roj yInej 'ej Dochvam yItlha'
http://pages.prodigy.com/mrklingon * [email protected]