[3223] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon insults
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Feb 16 09:51:21 1994
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From: mark <mark@dragonsys.COM>
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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 94 09:40:07 EST
ghItlh Marnen:
* * *
Drujiv, mu'qaDmeylij viparHa'qu'bej! majQa'! 'ach maQochbej
marqem jiH je: \-moH\ ghajniSlaw' \HabchoHmoH\: <caused it to
*become* smooth (after a period of scraping it in the dirt>
Hechba' mu'vam.
* * *
I figured there wasn't much effective difference between causing
it to BE smooth and causing it to BECOME smooth, in context. If
you are making an object, then you can cause it to be smooth from
the start, without its ever having been non-smooth in its
existence. But since people start out with foreheads before they
have the option of rubbing them in the dirt, and especially since
Klingons' foreheads start out as non-smooth, I felt that choH was
redundant, and that a Klingon would therefore omit it.
-- marqem
Mark A. Mandel
Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200
320 Nevada St. : Newton, Mass. 02160, USA : mark@dragonsys.com
P.S.: This document was dictated with DragonDictate v2.0.
