tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 10 23:21:40 2000
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Re: divorce
In a message dated 7/6/2000 1:31:16 PM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
<< Actually, it does; at least in on-screen Klingon lore. In DS9 "House of
Quark"
when Grilka divorced Quark (at his request) - whom she had recently married
in
the *Brek'tal* {bIreqtal} ritual after Quark killed her husband in a bar
fight
- IIRC she slapped him, spit in his face, then shouted *N'Gos tlhogh cha!*
"This marriage is dissolved!" Short and sweet: no courts, alimony or divorce
lawyers. >>
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Since TKD glosses {ngoS} only as "dissolve" (verb), I have not considered its
being a descriptive verb meaning "be dissolved." So, I have not translated
{ngoS tlhogh} as "The marriage is dissolved"; rather, I translate it as "The
marriage dissolves." Klingon lacks tense, so reference to when the marriage
"dissolved" can be present-tense-like.
Not only was the quote not {tlhogh ngoSlu'} in the first place, I am appalled
at the amount of misusages of {-lu'} as if it indicated passive voice. It
does not. It indicates the subject's not being specified. The correct
translation of {tlhogh ngoSlu'} is "One/ somebody dissolves the marriage."