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[Tlhingan-hol] Museum of Art
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven)
Mon Aug 3 03:22:41 2015
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 09:22:24 +0200
From: Lieven <levinius@gmx.de>
To: "tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org"
<tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@kli.org
This message is about the final 4 letters of the subject line. :-)
I know some people may feel offended talking about such things, but as a
part of linguistics, one needs to talk about anything.
One young son of my students had a silly question about a specific
klingon word, which prbobably many children tend to ask. Of course, I
did not hesitate and forwarded the question to Marc Okrand, who answered
with no new word, but with the expansion of a known meaning:
Email from Okrand, 03 August 2015:
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We already have that word (or those words). The noun is {Qep'It} and
the verb is {ruq}. Both of these words can be used for gas that comes
up from your gut and out of your mouth and also for gas that goes down
from your gut and out the other way. If it's necessary to make the
distinction (for Klingons, it isn't always necessary), use phrases
involving {nuj} or {Hugh} or {Sa'Hut.}
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For reference, here's the relevant part from HolQeD 12:4/2003:
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When air (or gas) from the stomach works it's way up and comes out of
the mouth (often noisily), one is said to {ruq} "belch." Maltz said it
is acceptable to refer to this gas as {SIp}, a general word for gas of
any kind, but that gas produced within the body is known as {Qep'It}.
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--
Lieven L. Litaer
aka Quvar valer 'utlh
Grammarian of the KLI
http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher
http://www.klingonwiki.net
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