tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 26 09:40:51 1997
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Re: KLBC:lopno'
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC:lopno'
- Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 11:38:23 -0600 (CST)
maqlIy wrote:
:The only other word we have is yupma' for festival which sounds a little
:formal for my intention. How does anyone feel about lopwI'ghom? As in :
:lopwI'ghom yImuv! Join the party!
Analogous to tIjwI'ghom, right? Keep in mind, though, that lopwI' may be a
terminus technicus for the nentay "initiate". Cf. Skybox Card S9 ("Age of
Ascension"):
poSDaq nIHDaq je QamtaHvIS SuvwI'pu'. chaH jojDaq yItnIS lopwI'. luchovmeH
'oy'naQmey lo'.
The initiate must pass through a gauntlet of warriors who test him with
painstiks.
Literally a "celebrant," I've also seen this person referred to as an
"ascendee" in fandom.
:Actually, I want a word for ceilidh. (A ceilidh is a Gaelic social gathering
:where people sing, recite poems and stories of heroic deeds, drink a lot,
:and, if its a really good party, end up with a free-for-all brawl. Sounds
:like a Klingon party doesn't it?)
If there is a term for this, it may not be predictable. Remember the scene
in CK where a head-butting contest in a bar is called a "mock battle":
What's happening over there?
pa'Daq qaStaH nuq
Klingon warriors are butting heads.
qIp'egh nachDu'chaj tlhIngan SuvwI'pu'
Everyone enjoys a mock battle.
may' ngeb tIv Hoch
"Festival" only seems formal in English. Given our choices, I think yupma'
is still our best option. Unfortunately, we have no attestations of the
word's use in Klingon so we don't know the range of festivities it covers.
Of course, you can always just avoid using a noun altogether: DaH malop!!
"Now we celebrate!" (as Klingon-Sisko advised his team at the all-night
blowout for the Order of the Bat'leth initiates on Ty'Gokor in "Apocalypse
Rising").
-- Voragh