tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Aug 10 20:58:02 1999
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Re: canon words
ja' pIl'o':
>(BTW, what is "Sky Box"?)
SkyBox International was a company that made trading cards. Along with the
baseball and auto racing and other sports cards they published, they also
had several series of Star Trek trading cards. At some point, they merged
with Fleer, another major trading card company. They produced a set of
cards for each of the first six seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation,
and each set had a number of "special" cards. Three of the special cards
in each set contain Klingon text and an English translation; the cards give
credit to Marc Okrand for the Klingon. In a couple of cases, we have seen
new vocabulary on the cards before it was mentioned anywhere else. There
are also a few apparent examples of grammatical usage, though it's hard to
be certain from such a small sample.
There is also a Klingon language card in a Deep Space Nine trading card set.
>There are a few martial arts words listing HetaQ as source.
I hope most of those "words" are actually descriptive phrases, and not just
invented terms.
>I 'spose I shouldn't use the words, then.
It's never a good idea to rely on a lexicon that someone else has compiled.
You can't be certain of its quality. If you really want a comprehensive
list of Klingon vocabulary, there is no substitute for making your own. A
careful pass through TKD and its addendum and KGT and the "new words list"
on the web site will do wonders for your knowledge of what words exist.
>No matter. I'm
>sure thlIngan Hol has an adequate lexicon to describe the mayhem, fighting,
>weapons, damage, methods of killing, and dying with or without honor for my
>conversational needs.
*My* daily conversations rarely stray into those topics. :-)
>I do wish there were more anatomical words.
There are oodles of such words! See the "cheat sheets" linked from the
KLI's PDF page, /kli/PDFs.html (note that they don't
list any gender-specific anatomy, though).
><qIvon> is so
>vague, so euphemistic for such a seemingly upfront and in your face society as
>Klingon.
There's nothing vague about that word. We just don't know what it means!
It's a body part; that's about all we know -- along with the apparent fact
that at least one Klingon has a "left" one. And that's all we're likely to
know about it for many many years to come.
-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh