[tlhIngan Hol] Spoils of war

[nIqolay Q]

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 11:40 AM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:

> 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?"
>
*toH! mayqel, nom jIghoH, 'ach QIt jIyaj. *I've certainly made similar
arguments before about words we don't know yet.* veS tev* (I suppose it
would be *noH tev* if you're talking about specific spoils from a specific
war) strikes me as a particularly good phrase.
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