[84025] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: KCD 3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Tue Jan 22 16:15:44 2008
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:13:31 -0600
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4796479E.2090003@trimboli.name>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
qa'vaj:
> > wuqlaHbe'gach! nov qo'nganpu'vaD rop rur!
> > Indecision! It is like a disease with you off-worlders.
SuStel:
>Reduce {nov qo'nganpu'vaD} to {novvaD}.
>"YOU off-worlders" is a little trickier. I usually resort to apposition:
>
> tlhIHvaD, novvaD, rop rur!
For variety, consider the slang term {Hur'Iq} "outsider, foreigner":
KGT 153: This word originally referred only to the people known as the
Hur'q, a race of humanoids from the Gamma Quadrant who developed a
reputation as ruthless invaders who would attack other societies primarily
for the purpose of robbery, stealing whatever they could and destroying the
rest. The Hur'q invaded the Klingon homeworld some 1,000 years ago, and the
loss to the Klingons was so disastrous, not to mention humiliating, that
Klingon society became increasingly intolerant of other races. In time, the
Hur'q came to symbolize any non-Klingon. Actually, in Klingon, a Hur'q
person would be {Hur'Iqngan}, while {Hur'Iq} refers to Hur'q society or
their homeland. This shorter word took on the slang meaning of "outsider,
foreigner". The standard term for "foreigner, alien" is {nov}.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
