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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: vo'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Tue Oct 6 10:19:32 2015
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 14:19:19 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, October 06, 2015
>
> Klingon word: vo'
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: propel
QIStaq qul bIQtIqHomDaq 'etlhDaj vo' nuch
the coward threw his sword into the fire streams of Kri'stak (PB)
"[Okrand's] literal translation is always skewed a bit, so if you send him 'Row, row, row your boat', you'll get back 'Propel, propel, propel your craft'." (KCD executive producer Keith Halper ([KCD novelization p.212])
TKW 148: The commonly heard sendoff [{pe'vIl mu'qaDmey tIbach}] "Curse well!" - roughly comparable in usage to the Federation Standard "Good luck!" - literally means, "Shoot curses forcefully!" Curses are considered a weapon of a sort which must be propelled to their targets.
SEE ALSO:
ghoS thrust (v)
yuv push (v)
baH fire (torpedo, rocket, missile) (v)
chuH throw (a spear) at (v)
jaD throw around, hurl about (v)
polHa' discard (v)
woD throw away (v)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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