tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jan 30 16:11:51 1997
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RE: Klingon Honor
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Klingon Honor
- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 97 23:20:52 UT
January 30, 1997 12:31 AM, jatlh Voragh:
> quvHa'ghach actually debuted in TKW. But you're right about quv being an
> afterthought. quv = "honor" (n.) and "be honored" (v.), as well as all of
> its compounds (la'quv, ra'ghomquv, yejquv), appear in the 1992 Addendum to
> TKD. (yejquv is *heard* for the first time on CK.) Okrand probably needed
> it to come up with words for the first couple of seasons of TNG and was
> trying to avoid overusing batlh.
Ah. Because no TNG actor was going to be able to pronounce {batlh} correctly
. . . :)
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