[87653] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: A KGT pun?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terrence Donnelly)
Tue Jan 12 12:05:10 2010
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:02:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Terrence Donnelly <terrence.donnelly@sbcglobal.net>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <C305E6BD33E2654DAE1F8F403247B6A60113A1A56604@EVS02.ad.uchicago.edu>
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--- On Tue, 1/12/10, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
> 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:
>
Probably not a pun, then. Those DS9 writers don't seem like the type.
-- ter'eS
