tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 27 08:19:01 2007
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Re: chalDep pI'
At 08:53 PM Monday 11/26/2007, Doq wrote:
>chalDepmey pI' boSopta''a' 'ej botIvpu''a'?
chalDep pI' vItIvqu' 'ach <<chalDep>> ("bird") 'oHbe' tlhIngan Hol
mu'na''e' 'e' DaSovnIS. DaH <<bo'Degh>> wIlo':
[{bo'Degh} is] the most general Klingon word for a creature of
this type ... The plural suffix for birds is usually {-mey},
the general plural suffix, as would be expected. There is a
difference of opinion, however, about which plural suffix to
use for a few birds capable of mimicking speech ... [HQ 10.4]
qID 'oH je <<bo'Degh>>'e'. In fact, it's a double pun ({chang'eng
qIDmey}?): Alfred Hitchcock's movie "The Birds" took place - in all
places! - in Bodega Bay, which is a "Globally Important Bird Area" in
Sonoma County, California and an extremely popular place for bird watching,
not just because of the movie.
Ha'DIbaHmey meQ Sop 'e' tIv tera'nganpu'
Terrans enjoy eating burnt animals. [sic! for {lutIv}] CK
P.S. See the cartoon at
<http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/622b.html>http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/622b.html
on the Terran custom of eating "burnt, replicated bird meat" (as Worf's
brother Kurn put it in TNG "Sins of the Father") on *{tlho'jaj} or
*{tlho'meH jaj}.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons