tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 28 15:05:58 1997
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RE: petaQ or P'Tahk
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: petaQ or P'Tahk
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 97 05:47:37 UT
January 27, 1997 8:57 PM EST, jatlh Katie:
> Can somebody tell me if there is any difference between petaQ and
> P'Tahk. I know petaQ is a curse but in "Faces" the Klingon B'Elanna
> calls her human counterpart P'Tahk I was wondering if this was supposed
> to be petaQ.
"P'Tahk" is some Paramount scriptwriter's "Anglicised" (sort of) version of
{petaQ}. It's the same word, but one of them is a silly way to spell it, and
one of them is the correct way to pronounce it.
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