[89304] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: Mandatory Introduction
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Aug 31 15:02:48 2011
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:55:57 -0500
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qujIb:
> SuStel makes a good point about -Hom, but I think I'll use *jarDIyna
> tuq* when being formal. Alexander Rozhenko didn't say "wor'Iv puqloD"
> when he joined the Rotarran's crew, did he?
I don't think so. I believe Alexander reported to Worf, who was the Rotarran's new first officer, by stating, "*Bekk* Alexander Rozhenko, reporting as ordered." (DS9 "Sons and Daughters"). {beq} is "crewman".
However, {Alexander wo'rIv puqloD} was the correct way to identify himself: Okrand wrote on the MSN BBS (September 1997):
According to Maltz, there are at least a couple of ways to identify a Klingon's house (or {tuq}) [...] To say "Kahlor of the House of Molor" (or, if you prefer, "Kahlor from the House of Molor"), you'd say simply "Kahlor, House of Molor" {qeylor molor tuq}. If you want to be even more formal, the name of the father may be used as well... "Kahlor, son of Kahlin, of the House of Molor" is "Kahlor, son of Kahlin, House of Molor" {qeylor qeylIn puqloD molor tuq}.
The other way is actually more formal and a bit formulaic. To say "Kahlor is of the House of Molor" (or "Kahlor is from the House of Molor"), you could say {tay' qeylor molor tuq je}. This is literally "Kahlor and the House of Molor are together." The construction is no doubt based on the Klingon proverb "One is always of his tribe" (literally, "a person and his house are always together"): {reH tay' ghot tuqDaj je}. If Kahlor is speaking, he could say, "I am of the House of Molor" matay' {jIH molor tuq je}. Or if one were speaking to Kahlor, one could say, "You are of the House of Molor" {Sutay' SoH molor tuq je}. Literally, these are "The House of Molor and I are together" [and] "The House of Molor and you are together." The independent pronouns ({jIH} "I" and {SoH} "you" in the examples above) are always used in this construction.
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
