tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Feb 18 06:07:10 2000
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RE: ghargh ngaSwI'
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- Subject: RE: ghargh ngaSwI'
- Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 09:06:30 -0500
jatlh Lawrence:
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> From: Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen[SMTP:[email protected]]
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> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 8:46 AM
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> Subject: ghargh ngaSwI'
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> ghItlh De'vID:
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> > Qu'vatlh! nuq vIta'? ghargh ngaSwI' vIpoSmoH rIntaH!
>
> "ghargh ngaSwI' vIpoSmoH." not mu'tlheghvam vIyaj. mu'mey vIyajchu',
> chenDI' jImiSchoH. ghIHba' gharghmey 'ach ngaSwI'Daq vIlanqa'laHchugh
> qaybe'. QIt vIH. jIQapbej.
>
> not tlhInganpu'vaD Qatlh gharghmey, 'ach Heghchugh 'IQqu'.
>
> SKI: Random musings on an expression that never made much sense to me in
> English, and less so in Klingon.
>
The Klingon idiom {bIQ'a'Daq 'oHtaH 'etlh'e'} seems to be a good way of
conveying the idea of the English expression "opening a can of worms."
-taD