tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 20 21:42:23 2001
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Re: I had an idea, I don't know how...
ja' taD:
>I've never seen *{teSQaS} before; did you see it somewhere else?
It's apparently an Okrandian spelling of a word from the traditional
Fordian phrase spoken by the winner of a game of Klin Zha: "Zha riest'n,
teskas tal tai-kleon." The translation is given as "A pleasing game. My
compliments to a worthy opponent."
There exists a rather odd "Introduction to the Klingon Language" which
takes both Okrand's and Ford's works as equally valid, and mixes terms from
both sources -- and apparently others as well -- in the same word lists.
The exclamation *<teSQaS> = "compliments, congratulations" shows up in that
introduction. Someone asked about *<SHov'> = "billion" earlier this year,
which also comes from that source.
-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh