tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 13 09:11:09 1998
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Re: Pet peeves
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Pet peeves
- Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 11:10:00 -0500 (CDT)
: ja' Voragh:
: >I wish we knew how Klingons address things. In other words, how do Klingons
: >command an "it" -- like a computer or a turbolift? All the imperative forms
: >address a "you" (singular or plural). Most of us have assumed Klingons use
: >Clipped Klingon for this, though I can't find anything in canon or that
: >Okrand has said in the Expert Forum. Can anyone else?
:
: HablI', Su': labbeH.
: - Valkris, Star Trek III
:
: When I mentioned to Okrand at qep'a' loSDIch that I thought that this was in
: the form of a "pet command", he said it was a valid interpretation.
:
: -- ghunchu'wI'
You've mentioned your theory - which I always thought was a good one -
before, but I hadn't realized that Okrand approved it. I've adopted your
punctuation and annotated my notes. Thus our knowledge of the language
increases, one bit at a time.
Since Klingons used Clipped Klingon with their machines, they no doubt look
askance on someone (say, an alien?) who used the tlhIngan Hol verb prefixes
-- rather like Humans are amused by people who say "please" and "thank you"
to computers. As I recall, there was an amusing scene in a TNG episode
where a brand new engineer fresh out of the Academy explained to LaForge her
theory of being polite to computers.
Voragh