[84122] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: wutlhHaDI'baH jaj
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Tue Feb 5 06:14:47 2008
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:48:42 -0600
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
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At 10:12 PM Saturday 2/2/2008, naHQun wrote:
>wutlhHaDI'baH jaj botIvjaj!
We've seen *{wutlhHaDI'baH} on this list before, but now with the new
DeCandido vocabulary, maybe we can find a more Klingon equivalent. We have
several options:
{chuSwI'} - "A rodent that lives mostly underground and makes
an annoying noise."
{qorvIt} - korvit ["A rodent that eats through plants, commonly
found on Klingon farms, where farmers have set traps for them."]
{Quv'eq} - kuvrek ["An animal that prefers the shadows."]
And there's always the {Qa'Hom} "titmouse" [sic!] from KCD:
KCD: A {Qa'Hom} is a small animal considered rather insignificant. The
word literally means "little {Qa'}." A {Qa'} is a larger, more dangerous
animal. A {Qa'Hom} is not a young {Qa'}, but it does bear a vague
resemblance to its namesake.
As portrayed in the Language Lab image, this animal bears no resemblance
whatever to the small Terran bird called a "titmouse" but looks more like a
small, four-footed rodent with a lot of hair, like a hedgehog. The entry
on {Qa'Hom} is in the "Curses" section and the epithet can apparently be
applied to someone (or something) that may act like it's a vicious {Qa'}
but is, in fact, just a little, harmless creature, fluffing itself up to
make itself look bigger. Calling someone a {Qa'Hom} obviously implies that
he is weak and unable to defend himself, and thus not worth killing.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
