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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: ngogh tun
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Mon May 18 10:04:01 2015
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 14:03:49 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, May 16, 2015
> =
> Klingon word: ngogh tun
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: pillow
> Source: qepHom 2010, Email from Marc Okrand, 15 November 2010[] =
At the 9th qepHom'a' in Saarbr=FCcken someone asked Okrand about the word f=
or pillow: =
Maltz first said that Klingons don't have pillows and he wondered
why anyone would want one. But he's seen them (somewhere) and knows
what they are. So when pushed - "If you have to call it something,
what would you call it?" - he said {ngogh tun}. A {ngogh} is a block
or lump or brick. [...] He thought more about it and said maybe
another way to say pillow was {QongDaq buq} "bed pouch", but he said
that could also apply to a sleeping bag. Perhaps a sleeping bag is
{QongDaq buq'a'} and a pillow is {QongDaq buqHom}.
[Lieven L. Litaer, 12/07/2010]
CK: Since Klingons are accommodating of foreigners, guest rooms in hotels =
do come equipped with a bed but that it's most often made of the same mater=
ial as the floor.
When Captain K'Vada showed Picard to his quarters aboard his Bird-of-Prey, =
he slapped the hard bed - more like a sleeping shelf - and sneered, "You wi=
ll sleep Klingon-style. We do not cushion our bodies by putting down a pad.=
" Nonplussed, Picard slapped the "bed" himself and replied, "Good. I like i=
t that way." (TNG "Unification I")
SEE ALSO:
tun be soft (v)
let be hard (v)
nIm wIb ngogh cheese (i.e. a block?) (n)
tIr ngogh bread (i.e. a loaf?) (n)
ngogh mutlhwI' bricklayer (n)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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