[[
  [2001-02-11, 03.37-04.06] transcribed by zrajm
  [2003-01-29] added file header
  Style: {}=bold, <>=italics, paginated

  Type: article
  Date: December 2000
  Title: More from Maltz
  Author: Marc Okrand
  Source: <{HolQeD} 9:4>, page 16
  Publisher: Klingon Language Institute, Flourtown, PA, ISSN 1061-2327
  Summary: We're given the new word {tangqa'} <bull> (which was needed for the
    translation of {ghIlghameS}.

  : "More From Maltz", from <{HolQeD} 9:4>, page 16
  : Article by Marc Okrand, 2000
  : Klingon Language Institute, Flourtown, PA
  : ISSN 1061-2327

]][[p.16]]

More From Maltz

In the course of discussing the
imminent release of the Klingon
translation of Gilgamesh with Maltz,
a minor mystery was cleared up. In
the epic, Gilgamesh and Enkidu
battle the Bull of Heaven. The
Klingon translation (allegedly found
on a barren planetoid) contains the
phrase:

{QI'tu' tangqa'}

Although {QI'tu'} <heaven> is a familiar
enough term, {tangqa'} is clearly
something new. Maltz graciously
provided the following brief
explanation:

There's this Klingon animal, you see,
which is kind of bull-like.

It's called a {tangqa'}.

Both male and female ones are
called {qangqa'}. So it doesn't really
mean "bull." But it certainly looks
like one. Or more like a bull than
anything else.

[[eof]]