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

[Steven Boozer]

Voragh:
>>    yIn nI' yISIQ 'ej yIchep
>>    Live long and prosper!  (RTm)
>>    [literally "endure a long life..."]

This was from the British television magazine "Radio Times" special Star Trek 30th Anniversary issue (August 1996).

SuStel: 
> Ohohoho! A canonical example of <imperative> <conjunction> <imperative>.
> Not impossible after all! (And notice the violation of the KGT rule:
> it's not {yIchep'eghmoH}. Naturally, this was written before KGT was
> published...)

There's another example, translating the very same phrase in fact.  During UPN's Star Trek 25th Anniversary television special (September 1991), Leonard Nimoy came out on stage and said:

  yItaH 'ej yIcheptaH 
  Live long and prosper! 

Okrand also appeared on the show and may have provided this for Nimoy off the top of his head backstage. 


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Voragh
tlhIngan ghantoH pIn'a'
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons