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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: DarSeq
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Jul 10 10:04:06 2013
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:03:54 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, July 10, 2013
>
> Klingon word: DarSeq
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: *darsek*, unit of currency
> Source: KGT
Used in canon:
DarSeqmey DaHutlh
You lack money ("You lack *darseks*"). KGT
KGT 194: Since there are any number of phrases involving money that could be taken the wrong way if {Huch} ["money"] is pronounced {Quch} ["forehead"], many tourists follow the Klingon practice of using the term {DarSeqmey} ... to refer to money in general.
During the Kot'baval Festival being celebrated at the Maranga IV outpost, Worf gave a street vendor a couple of coins for what appeared to be a bag of dried gagh. Alexander wanted some money from his father to give to a man who offered to show him Molor's head in a box for 50 *darseks*. (TNG "Firstborn")
The Klingon Judiciary placed a bounty of 9000 *darseks* for the capture of escaped convict Jonathan Archer, dead or alive, in 2153, which was considered "a fortune" by the Tellarite bounty hunter Skalaar. These appeared to be metal (latinum?) bars, app. 1 x 3 inches in size, and were transported in a box. (ENT "Bounty")
TKW 7: ... perhaps, to the Klingon way of thinking, while one is alive, one must sacrifice or give up something (the way one uses credits or latinum when making a purchase) in order to ensure that the spirit is one's own.
Related words:
DeQ credit (n)
Huch money (n)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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