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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] squirrel
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Felix Malmenbeck)
Sat Nov 15 14:34:44 2014
From: Felix Malmenbeck <felixm@kth.se>
To: SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name>, "tlhingan-hol@kli.org"
<tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 19:33:36 +0000
In-Reply-To: <5467A90E.3070905@trimboli.name>
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Quite right you are: It's in DS9: "Sons of Mogh", where Kurn calls Odo and his officers koruts:
KURN (slurred): Stay back... you... you miserable koruts...
ODO: Easy... nne of us koruts are going to hurt you...
Source: http://www.st-minutiae.com/academy/literature329/487.txt
That episode aired 22 years before "A Burning House" was published, so it's not impossible that DeCandido took some inspiration from that.
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From: SuStel [sustel@trimboli.name]
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2014 20:27
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] squirrel
On 11/15/2014 1:56 PM, Felix Malmenbeck wrote:
>> qorvIt - rodent like animal listed as a farm pest, according to my
>> notes canon from a novel I think. Could have chosen a Qa', if a
>> Qa'Hom is too small, or some other small animal. No idea if a
>> boqrat is anything like a rat but it might work.
>
> It's from "Klingon Empire: A Burning House" by Keith R.A. DeCandido;
> a farmyard pest found on the conquered world of Pheben III. I don't
> think it's established that it's rodent-like, though, or even
> mammalian; just that it's a pest. It's also mentioned in "The Klingon
> Art of War", where it's made clear that korvits were also found on
> Qo'noS, even before the days of Kahless. So, presumably, the species
> is native to Qo'noS but a handful of specimens found their way to
> Pheben III as stowaways or something, and then proceeded to breed
> like Australian rabbits. Either that, or there's a species indigenous
> to Pheben III that's so similar to korvits that they decided to just
> call them Pheben III. Maybe most Klingons call them "Phebenian
> korvits" (*vIyben* *qorvItmey*?) or something, but the farmers who've
> settled there leave out the first word for the sake of convenience.
I'm pretty sure there's a Deep Space Nine episode where a Klingon calls
Odo a "kurrit," and Odo repeats the word patronizingly. I don't know
whether the novels or the episode came first, or exactly which episode
it is.
--
SuStel
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