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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: taH
> Klingon word: taH
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: continue, go on, endure, encase
> Source: TKD (109 KE, 143 EK)
TKW 11: The word for "survive", {taH}, can also be translated "continue, endure, go on."
reH tlhIngan wo' taHjaj
May the Klingon Empire continue forever! PK
[i.e. Long live the Klingon Empire!]
reH tlhInganpu' taHjaj
Klingons forever! PK
taHjaj boq
[untranslated] (TKD 173)
mataHmeH maSachnIS
To survive, we must expand. TKW
[i.e. *Nal komerex, khesterex* in *klingonaase*]
narghbe'chugh SuvwI' qa' taH may'
If the warrior's spirit has not escaped, the battle is still going on. TKW
taH tlhIngan wo'
The Klingon empire survives. KGT
yItaH 'ej yIcheptaH
Live long and prosper!
[*Mene sakkhet ur-seveh* in Vulcan fandom]
DIvI' rojmab qep ghanglu' 'e' nIDlu', 'ach taH qep.
Despite efforts to halt them, peace talks with Federation continue. MKE
{taH} in Hamlet:
taH pagh taHbe'
"To be or not to be." ST6
In a brief interview Marc Okrand talked about how he had to invent the verb {taH} while filmint ST6. (UPN's Star Trek 25th Anniversary Special)
Okrand said at a {qep'a'} that when they sprang the "to be or not to be" request on him, he said to himself that no matter what, there was no way he was going to put a copula into Klingon, especially not NOW. (~mark)
KGT 194: There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, of a non-Klingon actor who attempted to play the lead in the original Klingon version of Shakespeare's Hamlet but was shouted off the stage when he began the famous soliloquy by saying, {taQ pagh taQbe'} ("To be weird or not to be weird"), rather than the correct {taH pagh taHbe'} ("To be or not to be"; literally, "[one] continues or [one] does not continue").
Decipher, the license holder for a Star Trek roleplaying game, has a {taH pagh taHbe'} card with the first lines of the soliloquy at http://www.decipher.com/startrek/cardlists/themotionpictures/large/018tobeornottobe.html in the KLI's translation:
taH pagh taHbe'. DaH mu'tlheghvam vIqelnIS.
quv'a', yabDaq San vaQ cha, pu' je SIQDI'?
pagh, Seng bIQ'a'Hey SuvmeH nuHmey SuQDI',
'ej, Suvmo', rInmoHDI'?
More from Hamlet:
mang: DuHoSmoHjaj qeylIS qa'.
Horey'So: DuHoSmoHjaj je ghaH.
mang: muHoSmoHbej, qaH, taHvIS neH wo'. (TKH, p.143)
SAILOR: God bless you, sir.
HORATIO: Let him bless thee too.
SAILOR: He shall, sir, an 't please Him. (Hamlet IV:6)
["The colloquialism arises from the fact that the suffix {-vIS} (while) is always used with the suffix {-taH} (continuously). But here the verb itself, {taH}, (continue) is identical to the mandatory {-taH} suffix, so the soldier hypercorrectly assumes that the verb {taH} can take its place." [The Klingon Hamlet (TKH), p.208])
Trek trivia:
Klingon agent Kras told Maab, "We Klingons believe as you do. The sick should die, only the strong should survive." (TOS "Friday's Child")
"There are poor planets in the Klingon systems, we must push outward if we are to survive." (Mara, TOS "Day of the Dove")
Related words:
SIQ endure, bear (v)
yIn live (v)
chergh tolerate (v)
ru'Ha' be permanent (v)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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