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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: lInDab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Thu Oct 29 12:21:26 2015
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 16:21:05 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CA+7zAmNA_P0pYfQokAq9eJbrcjyucspQ3673sp7rhFL6JtCaXg@mail.gmail.com>
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> > Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, October 29, 2015
> >
> > Klingon word: lInDab
> > Part of speech: noun
> > Definition: espionage
> > Source: TKD
AFAIK Okrand has never used {lInDab} in a sentence.
(HQ 12.3:8): a delegate to the Klingon Empire could well be described as a {Duy quv} "honored emissary", but if it turned out that he or she was a spy, the phrase {Duy HoQ} "falsely honored emissary" would be appropriate.
MO to 'ISqu' (1/02/2012): For double agent, Maltz liked the slang expression {jey'naS ghoqwI'} (literally, "double-headed ax spy"). He said the non-slang term {'o'wen} could also be used for "double agent," but its meaning is a bit broader -- it's used to refer to someone (or something) of ambiguous status. As Maltz put it, "You're not quite sure if it's this or that. You think it's one thing, and it may be, but it may be another.
TREK TRIVIA:
Klingon Special Occupation Order No. 4 requires that 200 local hostages be killed every two hours until a spy/saboteur is given up. (TOS "Errand of Mercy")
AYELBORNE: "What are you going to do with him, Commander?"
KOR: "What is always done with spies and saboteurs. He will be killed,
after he has had first-hand experience of our mind scanner."
(TOS "Errand of Mercy")
SEE ALSO:
ghoqwI' spy (n)
ghoq spy (v)
nIteb chegh molor ngIq ghoqwI'
One by one Molor's scouts return PB
Daq eavesdrop (v)
lojmIt poSDaq Daq pagh
No one eavesdrops at an open door. PK
bIDaqchu' 'ej jagh De' lI' DaSuq
Intercept useful enemy information. MKE
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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