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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: jornub
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Martin)
Mon Jul 6 15:21:34 2015
From: Will Martin <lojmitti7wi7nuv@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <ACF6622D959A8842A81E4471BA56A7E04BD82CC0@xm-mbx-04-prod.ad.uchicago.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 15:21:16 -0400
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
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I would expect that arming it is a separate step from being prepared to launch it.
Perhaps:
jornub yIjorbeHmoH!
> On Jul 6, 2015, at 10:17 AM, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
>
>> Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, July 06, 2015
>>
>> Klingon word: jornub
>> Part of speech: noun
>> Definition: warhead (of a torpedo)
>> Source: KGT:K-E
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> Spelled {jorneb} in the KGT text (p. 57) and the E-K section of the KGT glossary, but {jornub} in the K-E glossary.
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> KGT 56: The warhead of the torpedo is called its {jorneb} (which seems to contain the verb {jor} ["explode"] but is otherwise not analyzable).
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> Qes (6/27/07): In HolQeD 10:4, pp. 4-5, where we are given vocabulary connected with birds, we are given the noun {neb} "beak, bill of a bird"; I find the idea of a torpedo or missile as a bird of prey diving at its target beak-first to be a rather apposite metaphor.
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> TREK TRIVIA:
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> The Ekosians fired an unmanned reaction-powered probe with a thermonuclear warhead at the Enterprise. (TOS "Patterns of Force")
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> A malfunctioning suborbital U.S. thermonuclear warhead was exploded 104 miles above Earth's Eurasian land mass in 1968. (TOS "Assignment: Earth")
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> Use {ghuS} "be prepared to launch or project (something)" for "arm" a warhead?
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> Voragh
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