tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 08 12:04:18 2013
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] jolly?
De'vID:
> I have a recollection of reading somewhere that MO was asked how to
> translate "jolly good [fellow]", and his replied contained {Quchqu'}
> and a remark that Troi (in the STTNG episode "Parallels") was wrong to
> say that Klingon doesn't have a word for "jolly". Was it in an issue
> of HolQeD? On a mailing list? Or am I imaging things?
In TNG "Parallels" Troi commented on the difficulties of translating the song "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" into Klingon that, "There doesn't seem to be a Klingon word for 'jolly'."
I don't have any record of Okrand opining on the question, nor of the form *{Quchqu'} in my notes, though it would seem to fit.
FYI {Quch} "be happy" in canon:
jIQuch
I am happy. KLS
loD Quch jIHbe'
I am not a merry man. TKW
De'vetlh vIQoy, vaj jIQuch
I am happy to hear that information. KGT
AFAIK there are no examples of {QuchHa'} "be unhappy" in canon.
Anything in the paq'batlh, guys?
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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