[85151] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: Did Okrand help?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Thu Oct 16 11:06:59 2008
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "'tlhingan-hol@kli.org'" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:05:22 -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.
>>>One word is a kind of vitamin pill, called a {tuQloS}. I don't get any
>>>particular meaning out of that,
Voragh:
>> "wear + four" or "wear + wait for" (??)
ghunchu'wI':
> I think it's a mistake to call it a "vitamin" - they are taken by a
> Klingon-spy-disguised-as-a-human:
>
> *"she would slip away to the lavatory and sneak a couple tuQloS pills to
> help her body take some sustenance from the human food she was forced to
> consume."*
Do you have the page reference?
> It's part of her disquise, perhaps that's the "wear" part - she's wearing
> another form. It lets her "wait" while wearing the false form?
I think that's probably it.
> Or maybe it's a silly pun on "wherefore."
That occurred to me too, but I couldn't think of any relation to pills or "vitamins".
--
Voragh
Canon Master of the Klingons
