[tlhIngan Hol] Expressing surprise

mayqel qunenoS mihkoun at gmail.com
Wed Aug 16 11:25:10 PDT 2017


voragh quoting "tng the chase":
> he exclaimed *Maw’tok!* in shock.

I guess we don't have a canon klingon spelling for maw'tok, right ?

qunnoq

On 16 Aug 2017 9:10 pm, "Steven Boozer" <sboozer at uchicago.edu> wrote:

> (TKD 6.4):  The question word *chay'* "how?" may be used as a one-word
> sentence meaning “*How did this happen*? *What happened*? *What the*--?”
>
> --Voragh
>
>
>
> *From:* tlhIngan-Hol [mailto:tlhingan-hol-bounces at lists.kli.org] *On
> Behalf Of *nIqolay Q
>
> There's a few examples you could use when surprised, though the emotion
> they suggest is more confusion than surprise:
>
>
>
> {qaStaH nuq jay'} "What the hell is going on?" (from ST6, I think)
>
> {chay'} "What the-?" (from TKD)
>
> (Maybe you could add {jay'} to the previous example to get {chay' jay'}
> ("What the hell-?"), which has a nice rhyme to it.)
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