[84431] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon WOTD: ngIl (verb)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Apr 16 11:16:06 2008
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:14:28 -0500
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
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Doq:
>To me, this sounds more like you are encouraging him, like a
>cheerleader, rather than taunting him, which is what *I* mean when *I*
>say "I dare you two to fight."
Interesting... there's no known verb for "taunt"; the closest I could find
was {tIch} "insult". Looking for what Okrand had to say about Klingon
taunting, I found this (KGT 13-14):
There are occasions when either as a sign of erudition or just
to taunt a friend one may speak a line or two in {no' Hol}.
But it was his next line that made me burst out laughing:
Among some admirers of Klingon history, conversations may take
place entirely in older language forms. Such conversations are
usually of very brief duration, however, and restricted to a
few topics for which vocabulary is known. [KGT 14]
Which reminds me that {qep'a'} is coming up!
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
