[96858] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] {qoSta'} clarified
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (De'vID)
Thu Aug 1 04:20:08 2013
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Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 10:19:38 +0200
From: "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
Voragh:
> [It does BTW appear in the ST:Klingon! (KCD) novelization (p.85f.) and maybe the game itself (can someone check?):
>
> The bartender nodded and before a moment passed he had
> returned with three bottles. He sat them on the bar and
> pointed at each in turn.
> "{ngaSwI' wej. HIvje'mey.}"
>
> As I recall the bartender wasn't a Klingon, so that may explain his grammar: "Bottle(s). three. Glasses." (Note that this appeared before {bal} was published in KGT although {bIQ bal} "water jug" was used in the KCD game itself.)]
It's been a long time, and I don't have the ability to run the game
any more, but wasn't that line spoken by Gowron or Pok? IIRC, the
bartender gave Pok a choice of three bottles of drinks of various
strengths, and {ngaSwI' wej} is a request for "bottle number three".
But I may be wrong about that.
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De'vID
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