[85144] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: Did Okrand help?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Mon Oct 13 11:31:01 2008
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "'tlhingan-hol@kli.org'" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:29:41 -0500
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ter'eS wrote:
> Does anyone know if MO was involved in the Star Trek: Vanguard book
> series, by David Mack? I'm reading Harbinger now, about half way through.
I did some quick Googling, but could find no mention of Okrand's involvement. For more info on the series, see:
http://startrek.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_Vanguard
(with links to pages for each novel)
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Star_Trek:_Vanguard
> One word is a kind of vitamin pill, called a {tuQloS}. I don't get any
> particular meaning out of that,
"wear + four" or "wear + wait for" (??)
It certainly sounds like a pun -- but of what? A brand of vitamins, such as "One-A-Day" multivitamins here in the U.S.?
(BTW, Doneq once suggested that {loS} was itself a pun: "wait fo(u)r".
> but in another place, one of the Klingons refers to his male member
> as his {loDmach}. I find this hilarious, and it seems like a very
> Okrandian sort of pun.
You're right, it does sound like Okrand. FYI Glen Proechel used the more prosaic *{loDjan} for "male organ" in his "The Warrior Tongue at Warp Speed".
--
Voragh
Canon Master of the Klingons
