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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Paramount Hol: "Sli'bah!"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Mon Jun 18 17:06:21 2012
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:06:12 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CA+7zAmO=BHTLjJ_0J2be9r8iOvzFu01ORoVFD50cLZWPUdV52Q@mail.gmail.com>
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loghaD:
> I seem to remember an episode of TNG (or possibly DS9) where a Klingon
> (Worf, I think) calls somebody a "sli'bah" or "shlee-bach" or "tlhIybaH"
> or the like. Pretty sure it was an insult.
> Pretty sure it doesn't correspond to any known word in ta' tlhIngan Hol,
> but I'd still be interested in learning the context in which it was used.
>
> Anybody know?
I found two possibilities in my notes:
*{SIy'loH}?? *seloh*, sex (the act) STE [Pronounced /SEE-low/.
Apparently appears in the script of TNG "Sins of the Father", but not on screen.
{toDSaH} *tohzah* STE (epithet)
First used in TNG "The Defector", where it was pronounced /to-ZAH/.
"This is something one Klingon would call another if they weren't on the best of terms." (CK)
"Insult with no direct translation." (DI)
- Defecting Romulan General Alidar Jarok sees Worf in Enterprise's sick bay and asks Riker, "Tell me, how do you allow this Klingon *pahtk* to walk around in a Starfleet uniform?" Worf grunts something threatening and Jarok replies, "Get this *tohzah* out of my sight!" Riker smugly comments that "only a *veruul*" would say that, thus trumping Jarok's knowledge of Klingon curses with his own knowledge of Romulan. (TNG "The Defector")
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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