[1175] in tlhIngan-Hol
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sat Jul 3 03:54:06 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
From: Randy Kloko <rkk@mail.lib.duke.edu>
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 93 09:20:55 EST
I'm assuming that between the recent problems with my e-mail
system and the censor's censures, the German original of
this didn't get posted. Peh. As if you can put a language
in a bottle and keep it isolated from the others. But I
really do want to make nice, so here it is in Even Lower
German. But with the original title. Kloko-vo'.
(aus "Der klingonische Lehnwortschatz im Rotwelsch des
ehemaligen Planetenbundes", Neuberlin, AD 24??)
(from "The Klingon Loan Vocabulary in the Argot of the
former Federation of Planets", New Berlin, Ad24??)
APPENDIX A.
TEXTS.
1. Find a hackwit! Doc!
HaQwI' DaH
2. Jottlez-vous francais? [always followed with laughter]
jatlh
3. She jot-and-tittles like a pooh-bah. [ironic]
to jot-and-tittle=to speak solemnly (cf. to jottle);
pooh-bah<pabpo' via folk etymology
4. Wes can jottle the bottle, but can he bottle the jottle?
jatlh batlh; cf. bottle-jottle "braggadocio"
5. We ain't seen a Moogwit in a targ's age.
mughwI'; targh
6. I mash my yique tartare.
maS yIH cf. historical change of mouton>mutton
7. Madge! Just fracking Madge! [ironic]
maj to frack [origin unknown. Yeah, right.]
