tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 28 20:30:29 1997
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Re: Practicing...
- From: Bill Willmerdinger <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Practicing...
- Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 22:33:27 -0400
- Organization: IKV Crystal Dagger, Klingon Assault Group Rochester NY
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Steven Boozer wrote:
> : Lawrence, why did you have to pick a title ("Director") that has
> no
> : exact translation into Hol? What are we supposed to call you?
> : {loHwI'}? {DevwI'}? {toy'wI'}? (I assume that {pIn} is out due
> to its
> : connection to Glen Proechel.)
> :
> : Qoboy
>
> Well, Gowron is the {yejquv DevwI'} and is addressed as {DevwI'} for
> short
> in KCD (or at least in the novelization thereof), so I suppose Dr
> Lawrence
> would be the {yejHaD DevwI'}. And we all remember Okrand's words
> about the
> {DevwI'na'} on PK. Of course, for Terrans {DevwI'} does have its own
>
> unfortunate connections: Il Duce, Der Fuehrer, El Lider, Vozhd',
> etc.
This weekend, I saw a Playmates Gowron figure in German packaging. What
title did they give him? Yup: Der Fuehrer.
> How about... {Qeloy}? But only if you know him *real* well! {{;-)
Knowing our illustrious Leader, we could likely call him anything except
"Larry" or "late for dinner". <g>
> -- Voragh, plain and simple
"Plain, simple Voragh"? So, you're a spy-I-mean-tailor?
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