[tlhIngan Hol] Spoils of war

[mayqel qunenoS]

*nIqolay Q:*
*> toH! mayqel, nom jIghoH, 'ach QIt jIyaj.*

qay'be', nIqolay Q ! naDev, juppu' maH. pIj, qa' DI'onmey le' ghajmo' Hoch
nuv, chaq wa' yajHa'laH latlh. 'a mavuvchuqbejmo', tagha', not qay'wI'
tu'lu'.

No problem nIqolay Q ! We're all friends here. Often, because of the unique
character traits of each person, perhaps one can misunderstand the other.
But since we definitely respect each other, at the end there is never a
problem.

qunnoq

On Sep 14, 2017 6:56 PM, "nIqolay Q" <niqolay0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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