tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 18 12:43:19 2000
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Re: Hello
Admiral Be'jen zantai-minn'hor asked:
: I've subscribed to this list for a while, but this is my first posting. I'd
: like to ask a question: I have a friend who is becoming Klingon and needs a
: good name. The best-fitting name for her would be something like "Stands
: With a Fist", the character from the movie "Dances With Wolves". Can anyone
: give me a Klingon equivalent? Thank you!
The problem, as you know, is that Klingon doesn't have a preposition meaning
"with" - either in the sense of accompany (tay') or use (lo') - but must use a
verb phrase to render the idea. So you need to ask her what exactly "Stands
With a Fist" means to her; ask her to phrase it in the form of a sentence.
Coincidentally, there's a similar Klingon expression from _Klingon for the
Galactic Traveller_ that you can adapt:
ro'lIj HI'ang!
Show me your fist!
Okrand explains it as:
"an idiomatic expression used to challenge someone to take
action in a manner consistent with something he or she has
just said." (KGT p.195)
So we can call her {ro' 'angwI'} or {ro''angwI'} - one or two words, her
preference - to mean "one who shows a fist". If you want to, you could expand
this to {ro'Daj 'angwI'} - "one who shows his/her fist" (two words only) - but
I think this is unnecessary over-precision. (Whose fist other than her own
could she show?)
And the advantage of using a Klingon idiom is that she gets to explain a bit of
Klingon culture to her friends when they ask her what her name means.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons