tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Oct 15 10:40:07 2007
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Re: Klingon words from _Diplomatic Implausibility_ (DI)
At 11:53 AM 10/15/2007, lab naHqun:
>I did come across the following love poem on page 142:
Okay, I'm trying to make head or tail (sorry) of this. I'm missing a
word and confused by the reference to a two year old. Precocious
child, it seems. Not much of a love poem, either. More like a cry for
internet pharmaceuticals.
How many times [possibly "at what time" cf. 'arlogh Qoylu'pu']
will/did/does Leskit have sex? In the bed
Leskit feeds/buys [him/her/it].
Kurak, Leskit, acting together
Leskit [malrachal-don't know this word] cleavage
He/she/they begin/s, have sex.
Wet
Sex
How many times?
Unfortunately Leskit.
Uselessness Leskit.
Anyone want to help me out here?
>'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
>
>
>--
>http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=508314975
>http://www.myspace.com/naHQun
>http://www.angelfire.com/tx4/purpleelaphants/
>
>Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any
>taste in the white of an egg?
>Job 6:6
>
>
>
>
>
>
>--
>No virus found in this incoming message.
>Checked by AVG Free Edition.
>Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.9/1069 - Release Date:
>10/13/2007 7:26 PM
![[KLI Member]](/pics/KLImemberbutton.gif "[KLI Member]"){kind=small}
![[Hol po'wI']](/pics/level3_big.png "[Hol po'wI']"){kind=small}