mu'qaD veS (curse warfare)

[weslipuqlod]

posted on 10-10-2002 at 11:32 PM

mu'qaD veS (curse warfare)

A challenge goes forth...

I would like to see the forum members' collection of curses. Post your favorite insults here in Federation Standard or tlhIngan Hol.

Let us see who has the most original and powerful curses!

[KAllen]

posted on 10-12-2002 at 04:06 AM

I hope I have the syntax on this right, but this is one I "created"
" Qu'vatlh Sop je Hegh "
I interprete as "Eat s**t and Die"
Just a lil' something I liked.

[Kesvirit]

posted on 10-16-2002 at 08:00 AM

"I've seen sharper teeth on spinach such as that which hangs between yours."

"Go back to your Vulcan nurse. We need warriors here, not navel-gazing children."

(not Klingon in origin, but could pass if said with enough panache and a good leer: ) "You, who prefer the company of food animals, think you can out-perform me!?" (Come to think of it, this may be a come-on as well as a curse, depending on context...)

- Kesvirit

[qurgh]

posted on 10-23-2002 at 11:57 PM

Originally posted by KAllen
I hope I have the syntax on this right, but this is one I "created"
" Qu'vatlh Sop je Hegh "
I interprete as "Eat s**t and Die"
Just a lil' something I liked.

Your syntax is very close to being right, you needed a couple of yI-s on your verbs to make them commands. You choice of words isn't tho. Qu'vatlh is an invective used when you hit your finger with a hammer, kinda like "g'day't!"
So your sentance would be translated: g'day't! Eat and Die!

My suggestion would be to do: veQ yISop jay' 'ej yIHegh!
This would be much much closer to your intended meaning.
 

[KAllen]

posted on 10-25-2002 at 03:55 AM

Thanx...been awhile since I've read the Klingon Dictionary. I guess I need to re-read it and hit KLI too...
 

[tmk1000]

posted on 12-5-2002 at 04:35 PM
"you are a bIQ taQ verengan H' DIbaH" that is one i made up it means water (weakness and disdain) be weird and ferengi dog
to me it is funny
 

[tmk1000]

posted on 3-7-2003 at 12:00 AM

Is there no one who can top that? :lol:
 

[qurgh]

posted on 5-18-2003 at 05:16 PM

Sure I can top that one: yIH ghaH SoSlI''e' 'ej He' vavlI' 'ej tera'nganpu' rur!

Which translates too: You mother is a tribble and your father smells of humans. (lit. As for your mother, she is a tribble and your father emits odor and it resembles humans)

[Kesvirit]

posted on 5-18-2003 at 07:51 PM

quoth qurgh You mother is a tribble and your father smells of humans.

Another example of that cultural flow between the conquerer and the conquered I keep going on about. Your insult is derived from the original Terran French saying: "Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!"
( :lol: ! -- MPATHG)

- Kesvirit
 

[tmk1000]

posted on 5-18-2003 at 11:08 PM

why i should rip your heart out and feed it to my targ ( good one) but i whould not give my pet a pataQ's heart as it might spoll his apetite  

[qurgh]

posted on 5-18-2003 at 11:16 PM

::baps his head with the ends of his fingers::
pfffffft, silly Klingon K-nigh-its
Is that the best your insulting powers can do? Feed me to your targh?
targhlIj yInargh yIruch!
 

[Kesvirit]

posted on 5-19-2003 at 12:32 AM

Bring it on!

Originally posted by qurgh
::baps his head with the ends of his fingers::
pfffffft, silly Klingon K-nigh-its
Is that the best your insulting powers can do?

Hmph. It was your insult. I merely corrected your mistakes. Now ah don' wanna talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food-trough whaper! I fart in your general direction! Now go away or I shall have to taunt you a second time-a.

Feed me to your targh?

You would still be just as dead. The method of your death would add insult to injury. Instead of dying a glorious death in service to the Empire, you would be targh chow. This how you wish to be remembered!? [Added long after the fact:] Or dismembered?

targhlIj yInargh yIruch!

It is a poor insult indeed when your intended target does not register as being hit.

Or, to translate: the dis don't count if the mark don't know about it. Therefore it is in your own best interest as one who once to gain status through being victorious in curse warfare to provide a translation. Otherwise you appear foolish, not victorious. Something even a neophyte in curse warfare such as knows.

Or should.

I should quit while I'm ahead before I lose status, for there is no honor in attacking the weak.

- Kesvirit

(This is just too much fun. }}:-D )

[tmk1000]

posted on 8-13-2003 at 09:02 PM

(he, he, this is fun)

aren't we craby today maybe it has to do with Hab SoSlI' Quch! qurgh :lol: (Your mother has a smooth forhead :lol: )
oh and by the way boch ghlchraj (your nose is shiny)

[tmk1000]

I fart in your general direction!

(Thank you.  this ones not quiet klingon but it will do.....) "A man (or woman whatever the case) lets off lethal gas, hospital evacuated ."


GOT BEANS

[Kesvirit]

quoth tmk1000QUOTE (Kesvirit @ Oct 9 2003, 03:06 PM)
I fart in your general direction!

(Thank you.

I am not sure that the credit for that is mine to take.
Or that I want it.  
I merely completed the rest of the soliloquy qurgh had begun and translated it into English.

"A man(or woman whatever the case)lets off lethal gas, hospital evacuated ."

That sounds more like a newspaper headline than an insult. :blink:

GOT BEANS

Ah!  You have discovered that the word {qurgh} actually means bean! (With a tip o' the pommel to ngabwI' for pointing this out to me. }}: )
And thus we come around full circle, for the plural of Bean would be {qurghpu'}.  And what is that but gas?
(Anyone who understood that, bring me an air-tight bag with which to contain these mindfarts. }}%-)

 - Kesvirit  

[kmtal]

i got one!

we have got no time for a person with a piece of veQ romuluSngan for a mother and a Ha'DIbaH for a father! veQDuj 'oH DujlIj'e'! You measely baqtagh!

how was tat? kinda romulan-hating, i know. im not tat gud w/ insults. o well!!!!!!!!!

[Tedra_deArr]

I know that you mostly write down here selfmade curses, but I would need some curses and insults which are cannon... or a site where I can find them

mfg  

[qoSagh]

What would one so obviously bereft of the warrior culture as Paramount know about cannons? (I know more of a pun than an insult, but then again...)

[Tedra_deArr]

:unsure: I don't know if its a good one

You can't stain a rusty blade
(if someone could translate that would be nice as well)  

[Kesvirit]

quoth Tedra deArr I know that you mostly write down here selfmade curses, but I would need some curses and insults which are cannon... or a site where I can find them

Curse warfare is not a matter of canon. On the contrary, one's skill in curse warfare, as with all warfare, is based on creativity, cunning, and the ability to find and exploit an opponent's weak points.

I would encourage a beginner to utilize this Curse Bot for inspiration. I do not recognize many of the specific references. But one's ultimate success is as much in one's delivery as one's material. Practice saying these in front of a mirror until you can deliver them with a combination of panache and an effortless, dismissive sneer.

You can't stain a rusty blade

Excellent! It implies that the target of the barb is already so sullied as not to be worth the speaker's effort -- which is in itself an insult.

quoth qoSagh  What would one so obviously bereft of the warrior culture as Paramount know about cannons? (I know more of a pun than an insult, but then again...)

The very best curses employ multiple levels of meaning. The punned insult is a prime example. Well done!

-=- Kesvirit

[tmk1000]

that is a very (umm) strange site...May your in-basket overflow with the motley muck puking from the sweat pores of a Zakdorn Noseleech.
were did you find it?

[Kesvirit]

May your in-basket overflow with the motley muck puking from the sweat pores of a Zakdorn Noseleech

::laughing too hard at insult to issue challenge and draw weapon, which may be an insult in and of itself::  
You must be posessed by the spirit of Douglas Adams...

that is a very (umm) strange site...***were did you find it?

That contemporary terran electronic equivalent of Memory Alpha (TOS S3 ep 73), the Great Library at Alexandria, the Stacks at Berekely, The British Library, le(?) Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and many other great repositories of knowledge whose names I cannot remember or never knew: Google.

-=- Kesvirit

Addendum 20 Nov. 2004:

I have been thinking about the above and its role in how we get our information. Comparing Google to a library is a misapplied metaphor; it is more akin to a card catalog, and is heavily biased toward Western paradigms of the last ten years or so. It is also more prone to the inherent GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) problems than the conventional ink-and-paper inventories. It is also very much off-topic, so I will spare you my further insights and revelations on the subject. }};-)

[tmk1000]

cool it is very klingon like...May your porridge be infused with the puce putrescence smelling from the underarm pores of a Tamarian Klitbunkit

[Kesvirit]

*laughing* All right, all right. Enough prefabricated curses. The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is thataway. You should have turned galactic south at Magrathea instead of in. Have your engineer evaluate your infinite improbability drive. Knock back a few Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters to make it worth the wait. Then move your {‘o’}* because the Vogon Constructor Fleet approacheth.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread with original material

-=- Kesvirit

*aft

[qoSagh]

Yes, but I'm not sure that after a few tankards of warnog, I would be all that opposed to hearing the works of Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz. There is something vaguely Klingon like to rending someone in the gobberwarts with a blurglecruntion.

That being said, let us not go to Milliways.....it is a silly place.