[89083] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: mu'mey chu': matlh vItlho'qu'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Fri Aug 19 14:20:26 2011
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:16:19 -0500
In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20110819102853.04425d78@flyingstart.ca>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Robyn Stewart (Qov) reported:
> To further muddy the waters, there is a small number of secret words this year, words that we
> know the existence of but either don't actually know the Klingon or have been told not to pass on
> until the material for which they were coined is officially released. Klingon is getting weirder.
Secrecy isn't entirely without precedent for Okrand:
"When asked to speak Klingon, he often says, {QI' peghmey vI'angQo'}
which means 'I refuse to reveal military secrets'." [Qov, HQ 13.3:14]
It's a theme in the tapes:
pegh De'vetlh! (CK)
De' pegh vIghaj. (PK)
not to mention the whole series of {peghmey vIttlheghmey} from PK:
lojmIt poSDaq Daq pagh.
De' lI' Sovlu'DI' chaq Do'Ha'.
jIjatlhpa' jatlh Hovmey.
not mev peghmey.
Hov ghajbe'bogh ram rur pegh ghajbe'bogh jaj.
tugh Hoch mu'mey pegh lupeghHa'moHlu'jaj!
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
