tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 17 10:40:56 2000
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Re: Old subject revistied by a slow newbie
Qor:
}<ngech 'ang be' Hab> "a smooth woman shows cleavage", 'ach
}<ngech 'angbe' Hab> "(she) doesn't show cleavage, (she) is smooth"
}
}(Also, I may be missing something, but does <Hab> mean the same
}thing as <beQ> in this context?)
Qov:
: Okrand only knows. I used /Hab/ in comparison to foreheads. Maybe /beQ/
: would have been better understood. To me /be' beQ/ implies someone landed
: a toQDuj on her.
Here is how Okrand has used the two:
{Hab} be smooth
- Hab SoSlI' Quch!
Your mother has a smooth forehead!! PK
[As used in slangy variations for {law'/puS} comparisons]
- tlhIngan yoH ghegh verengan yoH Hab
The Klingon is braver than the Ferengi (slang) KGT
- tlhIngan yoH Hab verengan yoH ghegh
The Klingon is braver than the Ferengi (slang) KGT
{beQ} be flat
- HuD beQ yoS
Flat Mountain District (place name on Qo'noS) KGT
- nagh beQ
stone panel (artwork, similar to a painting) KGT
FWIW, {Quch ghegh} {rough forehead} is often used on this list as the opposite
of {Quch Hab}. Seqram also used it in this sense for the epigraph accompanying
the Klingonized portrait of Shakespeare, used as the frontispiece to the KLI's
hardcover edition of Hamlet:
naDev qonwI' qab'e' Dalegh:
SeQpIr qab 'IHmoH QuchDaj ghegh
This figure, that thou seest here put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut
Literally: "Shakespeare's rough forehead beautifies his face."
: I think you won't believe a description of the Klingon female costumes,
: unless you have seen them on the show.
Ahem... indeed. <G>
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons