tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon May 24 15:45:17 1999
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Re: lIchopbe'chugh ghewmey!
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: lIchopbe'chugh ghewmey!
- Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 18:43:18 EDT
In a message dated 5/16/1999 3:06:40 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
<< If this is so, the guard {'avwI'} in the joke is telling the offworlder,
"[Yes,] If the cops don't arrest you (first)!" This may be funny because (1)
the offworlder isn't expected to know what this means, and (2) it is in fact
coming from an {'avwI'} - which Okrand tends to treat as a police officer.
Perhaps his thinking is that {'avwI'pu'} guard the citizenry, or the city,
as a
whole. We know that they guard prisoners on Rura Penthe, Kesla is
described as
being one in TKW, and there was one at Kronos passport control in CK >>
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Thanks. Just to add another pun: the word for "arrest" is {qop}. I wonder
whom Klingons are referring to when they say {qopwI'}.
peHruS