tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Oct 15 08:55:05 2007
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Re: Klingon words from _Diplomatic Implausibility_ (DI)
- From: naHQun <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Klingon words from _Diplomatic Implausibility_ (DI)
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:53:10 -0400
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On 10/4/07, naHQun <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/4/07, Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Voragh:
> >
> > These bland descriptive names may be explained in the novel. Has anyone
> > read it? (I haven't.)
> >
> >
>
> paqvam vIlaD.
> 'ach mu'meyvam Delbe' qonwI'.
>
As it turns out, I hadn't read it. But I just finished it last night.
And no, HuDyuQ is not explained in the book. They don't even mention
the mountains. taD is where most of the novel takes place (either on
the planet, or orbeting it) and it's a cold, frozen planet mostly
inhospitable to Klingons.
I did come across the following love poem on page 142:
'arlogh
nga'chuq *Leskit QongDaqDaq
je' *Leskit
*Kurak *Leskit nItebHa'
*Leskit malrachal ngech
tagh nga'chuq
yIQ
nga'chuq
'arlogh
Do'Ha' *Leskit
lo'laHbe'ghach *Leskit
(Leskit is the male pursuing Kurak)
No translation is given in the novel, however it does go on to say:
"My son wrote it [...] He's two, and there's a three-year-old he wants
desperately to impress [...] I can only hope that he'll learn to
spell..."
At the end of the novel, under "Acknowledgments" it says:
Helpful people include Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen and his cronies at the
Klingon Language Institute and the aformentioned Marc Okrand, who kept
my linguistics straight and vetted the glossary
That's all I felt was worth pointing out, unless someone else had a
question before the book goes back to the library.
~naHQun
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