tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Apr 13 06:04:05 2006
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Re: Can Klingons learn from Vulcans?
- From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Can Klingons learn from Vulcans?
- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 23:03:39 +1000
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ghItlhpu' Shane MiQogh, ja':
>"klingon haiku" comes to mind...
Maybe so. The total number of syllables in a "steheht" verse is 22, just a
bit larger than a haiku. Feel free to give it a whirl; let's see what you
come up with!
muD rurchu' yIn.
rut SIStaHghach tu'lu',
'ej rut Hurgh vay' chal.
'ach wovmoH je vay':
jupna'.
(Life is like weather.
Sometimes there is raining,
and sometimes one's sky is dark.
But something brightens it too:
a true friend.)
I was also thinking that this mode could be used to couch an epic poem or
something similar if some hundreds or thousands of such verses were strung
together. That's what I had in mind when I wrote those two verses I posted:
they might be verses taken out of a stereotypical epic poem about Kahless.
Or perhaps, a section from that famous epic {lu qeng} "the Fall of Kang":
SuvHa', HoHlu'.
qun qon charghwI'pu''e',
Qapbe'wI' buSHa'.
vaj lIjchoH qunna';
lu qeng.
(He fought badly; he was killed.
History is composed by the victors,
it ignores the unsuccessful.
Thus the true history came to forget him;
Kang fell.)
QeS 'utlh
tlhIngan Hol yejHaD pabpo' / Grammarian of the Klingon Language Institute
not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' ngo' je
(Old roads and old friends will never deceive you)
- Ubykh Hol vIttlhegh
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