tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 09 16:57:04 1997
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RE: Sign of colors and a insult
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: Sign of colors and a insult
- Date: Fri, 9 May 97 22:30:47 UT
jatlh Edy Fonseca:
> Do you know if klingons have a kind of color (or word) in sense of
> fear/coward?
> In english blue means sad; in portuguese yellow means coward; in most of
> languages
> white means peace and red/green light (semaphore) means stop/go.
The only thing I can think of, and we're not really that sure we understand
it, is the joke in Power Klingon:
Doq'a' SuvwI'pu'?
ghobe'. SuD.
It is possible that Klingons who tell this joke are associating
blue/green/yellow with risk-taking, as {SuD} means "blue/green/yellow" and
"take a risk."
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SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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