[88326] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: A request for assistance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Felix Malmenbeck)
Thu Oct 28 11:39:13 2010
From: Felix Malmenbeck <felixm@kth.se>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:33:03 +0000
In-Reply-To: <C305E6BD33E2654DAE1F8F403247B6A60218AB451134@EVS02.ad.uchicago.edu>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
> I don't think there is one. I usually spell it *{tlhoghnI'} because I seem to
> recall Michael Dorn pronounced it /throg-nee/ in TNG "Angel One". (But
> I wouldn't swear to it.)
I checked, and he pronounces it "throg-nye" (rhymes with "guy"... ...as in Bill Nye the Science Guy, not Guy de Maupassant). I like your etymology, though.
It's worth noting that the smell of Throgni was apparently similar in scent to a sweet-smelling perfume used on Angel One. Worf found the scent stimulating, but Picard did not... ...although this was probably not so much due to the smell itself as it was because he was in a tense situation and had just been hit with a snowball by he-who-must-not-be-named; Dr. Crusher did not seem to mind the smell, but found it reminiscent of cologne. She claimed that its sweet scent inspires inhalation.
...so, apparently it smells good to most humanoids, including Klingons (if you trust the nose of one who drinks prune juice, that is).
