tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 21 07:26:21 1997
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"targh Hol"?
- From: Joel Peter Anderson <[email protected]>
- Subject: "targh Hol"?
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 09:26:13 -0500 (CDT)
Since we're seeing quite a few elements of "Paramount Hol" being dragged
(perhaps kicking and screaming) towards Okrand-canonized status, I 'd like
to make a suggestion for "what to call" non-standard, slangy, and
otherwise less-than-approved-of-by-the-guardians-of-proper-Klingon:
"targh Hol"
I like that this sounds roughly like ta' Hol, and that these terms have a
nice parallel with the English terms "pigeon English" versus "the King's
English".
[Lest I assume "pigeon english" is a well known term, from Hypertext
Webster Gateway: http://work.ucsd.edu:5141/cgi-bin/http_webster?pigeon
Pigeon English: [perhaps a corruption of business English], an
extraordinary and grotesque dialect, employed in the commercial cities
of China, as the medium of communication between foreign merchants and
the Chinese. Its base is English, with a mixture of Portuguese and
Hindoostanee. --Johnson's Cyc. ]
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