tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Feb 19 08:09:28 1999
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RE: KLBC : bang bom mu'
Nic Rutherford:
> I use the phrase <Huj be'> to describe 'a stranger'. I couldn't
> find it the KD or the guide for the galatic traveller. If anyone
> has any suggestions, then please mail me.
This needs to be {be' Huj} "a strange woman". {Huj be'} is a sentence:
"The woman is strange". You could also use {-wI'} "one who is" - {HujwI'}
- though since Okrand has never used {Huj} in context, we don't know
whether this would mean someone whom you don't know/recognize or someone
who is behaving strangely. If the latter, other options are {jum} "be
odd}, {taQ} "be weird" and {motlhbe'} "be unusual", which we know can refer
to people:
tera'ngan motlhbe' SoH.
You are an unusual Terran. PK
For a {bom} I like the sound of {be' motlhbe'} "an unusual woman".
ghunchu'wI':
: {nov} "alien, foreigner" comes close.
There is also the verb {nov} "be foreign, be alien" so, like {Huj}, you can
have {be' nov" "a foreign woman" and {nov be'} "the woman is foreign".
: {Hur'Iq} is a slang term meaning
: "outsider, foreigner". It's literally referring to the home or society
: of a race called the Hur'q. Those are probably not the kind of "stranger"
: you mean, though.
I'm always reminded of Earth's Vandals. Originally the name of a barbarian
tribe that looted and ransacked Rome, the word was later generalized to
"vandal" and the verb "vandalize". The Hur'q were also an infamous race of
invading, looting {novpu'}. Surely {Hur'Iq} is related to the noun {Hur}
"(area) outside" and perhaps meant "outsider" in some ancient {no' Hol}
dialect.
: I think the suggestion of {be' vIqIHpu'be'bogh} or something similar is
good.
"a woman whom I've never encountered (before)"
Variations on this theme are:
be' vISovbe'bogh "a woman whom I don't know"
be' vIghovbe'bogh "a woman whom I don't recognize"
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons