tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 09 22:33:18 1997
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Re: vaj KLBC
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: vaj KLBC
- Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 01:31:56 -0400 ()
- Priority: NORMAL
Soj vItu'DI' jISop. nuqDaq jISop? jISaHbe'! SopmeH wa' pa'
Dalo''a'? bItaQ!
charghwI'
On Thu, 8 May 1997 08:22:22 -0700 (PDT) "Mark E. Shoulson"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> >Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 22:24:21 -0700 (PDT)
> >From: [email protected]
> >
> >In a message dated 97-05-07 22:24:04 EDT, SuStel answers peHruS:
> >
> ><< What, to you, is the difference between "dining room" and "banquet hall"
> >that
> > one and not the other should correspond to a particular Klingon phrase?
> > Formality? What makes {'uQpa'} more formal than {Sojpa'}? Something else?
> > >>
> >
> >What if we discover from MO that {Sojpa'} actually means "pantry"? Of
> >course, until he says so, I won't claim that it could only mean "pantry." I
> >am merely stating that I had thought some time back about using {'uQpa'} for
> >"dining room." Personally, I still like it.
>
> That's a very good point; I thought of it too. Sojpa' makes a lot of sense
> as "pantry." Perhaps the odd thing about "'uQpa'" is that is sort of
> implies that DINNER is eaten there, but not lunch or breakfast (or ghem).
> I could believe that as an idiom, though (though we have no basis for it:
> perhaps the main meal for Klingons, after which the room would be named, is
> lunch, or breakfast, or elevenses or ghem).
>
> ~mark