tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 22 12:56:34 1997
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Re: "targh Hol"?
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: "targh Hol"?
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 15:56:32 -0400 (EDT)
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>(message from Joel Peter Anderson on Thu, 21 Aug 1997 07:37:00 -0700(PDT))
>Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 07:37:00 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Joel Peter Anderson <[email protected]>
>
>
>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".
An interesting approach, though I've usually seen that as "pidgin," a term
which has pretty specific linguistic meaning.
>[Lest I assume "pigeon english" is a well known term, from Hypertext
>Webster Gateway: http://work.ucsd.edu:5141/cgi-bin/http_webster?pigeon
Then again....
~mark