[tlhIngan Hol] Expressing "underwear"

[Will Martin]

I defer to your account, given your widely acknowledged and admired phonographic memory.

This was a loooooooong time ago, and I trust your memory more than mine.

I mostly remember his delivery and the laughter.

charghwI’ vaghnerya’ngan

rInpa’ bomnIS be’’a’ pI’.




> On Apr 24, 2019, at 2:27 PM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:
> 
> On 4/24/2019 2:13 PM, Will Martin wrote:
>> At the next qep’a’, we told this story to Okrand and we all laughed, and as it got quiet after, he grinned and quietly said, “Well, of course, you know that there really is a Klingon word for ‘armpit’, right?”
>> 
>> We were all astonished and wide-eyed fell for it, hook, line, and sinker as he said, “The word is, {‘I’}.”
>> 
>> And… so, it became canon with a wave of his magic wand. We had a great laugh and got a new word. Poof.
> I always feel it necessary to offer my alternative memory of the event.
> 
> Recall first that this was Okrand's first qep'a', and we were under strict orders not to pressure him for new words or clarifications. He was very uncomfortable with the idea of appearing in front of the group, and we were supposed to not scare him off.
> 
> We were gathered around a circle, with those toward the center sitting in chairs and the rest of us standing around the periphery. Okrand was near the middle, because we'd sort of accumulated around him. Some people were telling funny stories of conversations that had happened on the list, and the story of 'I' had come up. I was watching Okrand as the story was being told, by Seqram, I believe, and it was clear to me that he wasn't quite following it. When Seqram finished, and everyone was laughing, Okrand, still seeming confused, asked something like, "Wait, what is the word for armpit?" It was a very quiet question.
> 
> We couldn't take it anymore. As one, everyone in that group leaned forward and laughed, replying, in various words, "Yeah! What IS the word for armpit?"
> 
> And then it clicked for him that 'I' wasn't a real Klingon word, and that's why the story was funny. Okrand, completely deadpan, paused for just a moment and said, just as quietly, "'I'."
> 
> The room exploded in laughter.
> 
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