[tlhIngan Hol] Spoils of war

mayqel qunenoS mihkoun at gmail.com
Thu Sep 14 10:57:10 PDT 2017


> popwIj 'oH nach

Isn't here an {-'e'} on {nach} missing ?

qunnoq

On Sep 14, 2017 8:53 PM, "Felix Malmenbeck" <felixm at kth.se> wrote:

> I'm thinking «pop» (or «veS popmey») might work. In paq'batlh, Kahless
> says to Morath (on the subject of a targ that Kahless slew):
>
> loDnI'wI' bIHoHta'be'
> popwIj 'oH nach [sic]
> juHDaq porgh Daqem
>
> My brother you failed to kill,
> The head is my reward,
> You bring the carcass home.
>
> So, here «pop» is used in the sense of a reward that is claimed, rather
> than one that is willingly given. Whether or not this usage is
> metaphorical, I cannot say.
>
> //loghaD
>
>
> 14 sep. 2017 kl. 17:41 skrev SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name>:
>
> On 9/14/2017 11:27 AM, nIqolay Q wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 11:00 AM, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Are you serious ? Do you really expect this kind of arguments to be taken
>> seriously ?
>>
>
> If you're going to be "in-character" and treat Klingon culture as if it's
> a real thing, then you also have to treat the Klingon language as something
> we only know about from the incomplete information told to us by a single
> grouchy Klingon.
>
> It's one thing to wonder in-character why no one's ever asked Maltz about
> spoils or why Maltz has never brought them up, but acting like there is
> some major deficiency in the depiction of Klingon culture simply because
> Marc Okrand hasn't worked his way through every entry in Merriam-Webster
> strikes me as incredibly stupid.
>
> You have to learn to speak mayqel-ese. I took his initial post to mean,
> not "Klingon culture and language is stupid because they don't have a word
> for *spoils,*" but "Klingons obviously have to have a word for *spoils,*
> don't they?"
>
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