tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Apr 26 20:39:03 2006
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Re: Klingon WOTD: Qup (verb)
- From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: Qup (verb)
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:38:42 +1000
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ghItlhpu' Voragh, ja':
>Style note:
>I think {Qup} and {qan} refer exclusively to people, while {chu'} and
>{ngo'} are for things. Others may disagree.
maQochbe'qu'.
Nevertheless, as some may have already noticed, my email signature contains
the Klingon phrase {Hemey ngo' juppu' ngo' je}, the translation of an Ubykh
proverb that literally means "Old roads and old friends will never deceive
you". Obviously {juppu'} "friends" would normally use {qan}. However, I have
used {ngo'} (on the suggestion of one of the other {po'wI'pu'}) in order to
imply that it is the age of the *friendship* that is important; {juppu' qan}
"old friends" implies "old people who are friends", opposed to {juppu' Qup}
"young friends", i.e. "young people who are friends", which does not conform
to the sense of the original proverb.
This understanding of {ngo'} and {qan} is not canon, and is merely my own
interpretation of the sense. YMMV.
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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