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yanaqdalhar = lit. "hair vomit". aqdalharyan = "to vomit hair" would have roughly the same meaning. ukarh = "ape". IIRC, the roots of the word are uk (food/prey) and ar (first/primary). The rest of it sounds fine to me (including the course introduction).

Very awkward, I would imagine. At least, for those prudish Terrans anyway... 😈 😈 😈 Riga'hraijhaki h'innisjhamakschur takh jaqirini'irgaiulanna. I even had all the words for that one. More tame of a phrase to be sure. Could use both phrases, of course. The one about the ulanna trees come...

Not to my knowledge. We don't see too many female Kilrathi in the entire series at all...I think Lady Hassa and Princess Zu'kara are all who we ever see, and neither was a lair-mate. I had hoped to explore the idea of mated Kilrathi with Elegy; might still get there some day. "Blessings", eh...

Ah. Okay - then it should probably read as this: Ni'dalpa eshmang ja'l Terran'hra'chodyapa karhmakslanshikthrak. = lit. "I wonder sometimes how Terrans perceive the sky and ocean." Lunch now, editing this post with the requested line later... EDIT: Okay...wasn't sure which line to translate...

Oops...I'd forgotten about the context of the scene. k'har = "payback (revenge)" is wrong in this case...it should be jaqdugath = "compensate / reimburse / lit. 'return payment' ". Thus the line should read Ri'hagathwinhal jaqdugathikvima'ga? Two translations, not sure which one fits better in...

Alright. Ri'hagathwinhal k'harikvima'ga? (Sometimes I chuckle at the origins of some of my Kilrathi words. For example: k'har = "avenge / vengeance / revenge / lit. 'lack of shit'", as in "take no shit")

Depends on how taboo the subject matter would be in Kilrathi culture. You probably would be okay with sticking to WC4 plots (since it's the same story largely without all the comedy/cultural references/lewdness). While not official in any way, the core rules of my RPG puts the onset of...

Dagnabbit...and here I thought I had had an original idea for Elegy. Don't know why I would have thought that was original, but all the same... As an aside, if EA is going to make it to Wing Commander MCIII by the time of the story, they really need to start picking up the pace. Just saying.

You can if you wish, though some of my colleagues might take issue...

As written, it's referring to the author - Sun Tzu Terran'hra = "Sun Tzu, the Terran". How he'd be referenced in trathkh dai'B'nal would depend on Kilrathi knowledge of him, which in turn is dependent on how the Terran inhabitants of Fawcett's World knew of his work, which in turn would depend...

I missed the fact that Kna was Varni...that's what I get for not taking a closer look at the picture. I don't think there are 'official' guidelines for Varni names, though if you go off of what I've got in the core rules of the RPG then 'Kna' isn't a Varni name (then again the naming rules in...

I'm not necessarily a songwriter - not even in English - but I'll happily help with translation to Kilrathi when you need it. "Hagai. Gar'ha k'ro mas ga'hatakh ma'ins erg gar'toshlesivi, Sun Tzu Terran'hra, takh gar'lede'i, Rag'nith Xag. Qu hu'ha ga mas ni'is hu'kro erg garga'lede'i...

It would be likely that the elder Vakka would still have been alive at the time of the younger's birth, so lak Jukaga would be the proper form - and without adding conjectures about his function and place of birth, and in the absence of additional data the full name would be Kal Vakka dai Vakka...

Fair warning: this is the sort of question that has been known to cause thread-derailing debates before... I'd have to go back and re-read the novel one more time, but I'm inclined to think the scene was intended as a dramatization of "factual" events. I think Col. Schwarzmont is supposed to be...

"N'ikh nhar, ga'ha du aj'kbalan." Rag'nithjhak'drishk ra alpaqorkork takh Rag'nith'jaq v'eks du dai hukutav. ("N'ikh nhar" would probably better translate as "Mine father". Not an exact translation but I think Gilkarg was speaking with a bit of flourish in this situation, considering who he...

IIRC, I first started posting on the forums shortly before the 13th birthday; started by offering to fill a seat for TacOps and stuck around to find materials for this sci-fi RPG system I'd already built and wanted to see how hard it'd be to convert to another setting. Got a lot of good material...

About the interjections? There have been a couple of times working with the language where I've had a sentence that begins with a word like "well, " or "oh, ", and I don't have good ways of expressing the intended emotion other than to fill in a word that literally expresses it. For example...

"K'rathrg, ni'ka'akh du'aiy ergraiga!" ('Y'all'? I didn't realize we were dealing with a Cat from the Deep South... In other news, I really, really need to come up with a better set of interjections.) "Eshma? Karhsh'hakavji'k talan, maks hu'halanesh du inthrak ikar." No, there shouldn't be...

Probably #1 more than #2. Female feral cats (farm cats in particular) are known to "use communal nests and take care of kittens of other colony members". Quoting the Wikipedia article on feral cats here, so do with that what you will - myself, I think it fits well enough.

Quick suggestion - perhaps they were killed in a raid on their world, with the kid lucky enough to survive? Perhaps he was one of only a handful of survivors...or better still, the only survivor (hence why he wasn't picked up by a kinsman - there would've been no one left). Only other reason I...