[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: pav

[Felix Malmenbeck]

Star Trek V:

Vixis: HoD, yo' SeHyaH nIvvo' potlh De' wIHevtaH                  (?)
(Captain, new data, hostages on Nimbus III.)              [sic]
{Captain, we are receiving a priority message from Operations Command.}
[Clearly, this is NOT the line she is saying!]}

Source: http://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/2008/October/msg00037.html

It may be that this is an error. However, it may also be that this is not really a noun-verb construction meaning "important information", but rather a noun-noun construction meaning "information pertaining to something important". It seems to me that this may be a way of distinguishing between priority messages (an official designation for a specific concept) as opposed to messages which are prioritized (a more subjective description).

Compare with <pegh vIttlhegh>: It's a proverb for secrets, not a secret proverb (vIttlhegh pegh).

Also compare with ngoqDe' = "encoded message" (or is it *<ngoq De'>?)

[Vixis: DIvI' Se' wI'IjtaHvIS DaH ngoqDe' wIHevta'.
 We've just received an encoded message on the Federation frequency.]
Vixis:  nImbuS wejDaq 'ejDo' 'entepray' ngeHlu'pu'
 (The Starship Enterprise has been dispatched to Nimbus III.)
Klaa:  'entepray''a'. qIrq Duj 'oH
 (Enterprise? That's Kirk's ship!)

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From: Philip Newton [philip.newton at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 16:20
To: tlhingan-hol at kli.org
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: pav

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu> wrote:
>  potlh De'        priority message

That doesn't seem like a 1:1 translation... unless it was {De' potlh}?

Though I can imagine a scenario where the Klingon has {potlh De'} and
the English translation has "priority message"... can you provide the
source for this phrase, perhaps?

Cheers,
Philip
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com>

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