tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 14 10:20:27 1998
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Re: Par'mach (QaH!)
- From: Robyn Stewart <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Par'mach (QaH!)
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 10:19:57 -0700 (PDT)
---Patricia Landrum wrote:
>
> I was watching "Looking for /par'mach/ in All the Wrong Places"
> (DS9)
> recently, and I wondered what the Klingon in that episode meant.
> First
> there was that conversation between Kahless and Lukara, then Dax
> challenges Worf at the end. Was that all non-canonical nonsense
> (there's a tongue-twister!) or did it actually mean something in real
> /thlIngan hol/?
You really have to watch your fingers at first when typing /tlh/.
You'll know you have it right when you spell "heatlhy atlhete" like I
just did.
And always /Hol/.
Likely, the FAQ applies:
http://labs.thomtech.com/~dspeers/klingon/faq.htm#2.10
At the time, the word parmach itself was a huge topic of controversy.
It's since been cannonized. in /parmaqay/.
> Sorry this isn't in Klingon, but I'm *very* KBLC, and I'm only on the
> Nouns chapter in TKD.
THAT's good to hear. You're already way ahead of the people who skip
straight to the vocabulary and try to write sentences.
> By the way, did I spell Lukara right?
I'm sure someone who saw the show will respond to this and with an
analysis of what the Klingons were babbling.
==
Qov - Beginners' Grammarian
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