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Re: nuqDaq mu'meyvam vItu'laH

Lieven L. Litaer (Quvar) ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol ghojwI']

>> Then what would {*nga''egh} mean?  

Am 08.01.2004 09:48:45, schrieb Philip Newton <[email protected]>:

>And what about {yInga''egh jay', Ha'DIbaH!} ?

Hm. That conveys a different meaning to me than what I suggested.

[disclaimer: this is all just theoretically spoken, and only based on my personal sense for tlhIngan 
Hol. {nga'chuq} is canon, {*nga''egh} is not.]

I believe yours doesn't work. If you mean "F* yourself!", remember that the whole word {nga'chuq} 
means "perform sex", just as {ngagh} "mate with".

For the above insult, we'd have to write either
   *yInga'chuq'egh
or
   {yIngagh'egh}

The first one doesn't work, I guess, because there are two suffixes of the same type.
The second one seems to be a good way to say "F* yourself!".

But that's Terran thinking!

    {targhlIj yIngagh! yIruch!}
    "Go mate with your Targ!"

Power Klingon, isn't it?

My opinion to {nga'chuq} is that you *nga'* each other. Perhabs in words "make-love-with-(each 
other)"? Might sound too terran, but explains what I mean. (I hope :-)
When I think of a word {nga''egh} -- which would be "make love to yourself"? -- it reminds me of 
the act of master-station. [I am not using offending words here ;-)]

Just some thoughts...

Quvar.

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