[84100] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon Empire: A Burning House
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Jan 30 17:09:42 2008
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:06:14 -0600
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
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At 08:04 PM Tuesday 1/29/2008, naHQun wrote:
>NEW! {qaDrav}. Literally "challenge floor," it is a raised, fenced
>platform in the plaza outside Klingon Defense Force Headquarters where
>challenges between warriors were once regularly held.
"Once regularly held" but no longer in the 24th century?
Analogous to a boxing ring in an army gym, or more like a duel-to-the-death
defending one's honor?
Musing on unexplained similes:
'IQ; rav rur
sad as a floor (KGT)
Hmm... due to unfortunate twists of fate?
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
