tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 19 11:27:28 2011
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Re: mu'mey chu': matlh vItlho'qu'
taHmeH tlhIngan Hol SachnIS.
The one caution is to not make Klingon such an effective secret that no new persons learn it. And those who know it atrophy… and run out of people to converse with.
pItlh.
lojmIt tI'wI' nuv
On Aug 19, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Steven Boozer wrote:
> Robyn Stewart (Qov) reported:
>> To further muddy the waters, there is a small number of secret words this year, words that we
>> know the existence of but either don't actually know the Klingon or have been told not to pass on
>> until the material for which they were coined is officially released. Klingon is getting weirder.
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> Secrecy isn't entirely without precedent for Okrand:
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> "When asked to speak Klingon, he often says, {QI' peghmey vI'angQo'}
> which means 'I refuse to reveal military secrets'." [Qov, HQ 13.3:14]
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> It's a theme in the tapes:
> pegh De'vetlh! (CK)
> De' pegh vIghaj. (PK)
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> not to mention the whole series of {peghmey vIttlheghmey} from PK:
> lojmIt poSDaq Daq pagh.
> De' lI' Sovlu'DI' chaq Do'Ha'.
> jIjatlhpa' jatlh Hovmey.
> not mev peghmey.
> Hov ghajbe'bogh ram rur pegh ghajbe'bogh jaj.
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> tugh Hoch mu'mey pegh lupeghHa'moHlu'jaj!
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> Voragh
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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