[87652] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: A KGT pun?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Tue Jan 12 10:31:13 2010
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "'tlhingan-hol@kli.org'" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:29:24 -0600
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ter'eS:
>We've identified the pun behind the name J'puq from KGT, but I was
>reading through it last night, and I found another suspicious name:
>Keedera, identified as the most famous composer on Qo'noS. Any ideas if
>this is a pun, and who it might be? I'm not as up on my famous composers
>ca. 1997 as I thought, because I'm drawing a blank.
It may be a pun, but it's not Okrand's. The name comes from DS9 "By Inferno's Light" where Martok suggested adding a new line to a famous song by Keedera: "Bashir, the healer who bound the warrior's wounds so that he could fight again." Okrand merely referred to Keedera in KGT without providing a tlhIngan Hol spelling:
KGT 71: From the Klingon point of view, a song is not the product of an individual's mind. It has somehow always existed and is waiting for someone (the songwriter or, more accurately, song recorder, {qonwI'}) to transcribe it ({qon}) and then present it ({much}) to others. There are a number of very well known songwriters, and it is quite an honor if one of them composes a song about one's exploits. Currently, perhaps the most respected {qonwI'} is Keedera.
--
Voragh
Canon Master of the Klingons
